Boris Groys
Russian-born German philosopher, art critic, and media theorist known for his writings on Soviet and contemporary art, modernity, and the relationship between art and politics.
Books
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1. Introduction To Antiphilosophy
A concise exploration of antiphilosophy as a critical stance that refuses systematic metaphysics, tracing its genealogy through modern thinkers and avant-garde practices and showing how art, literature, and political action take up philosophical tasks while rejecting philosophy’s pretensions to totalizing theory. It argues that antiphilosophy is not mere negation but a distinct mode of thought and practice that foregrounds the limits of conceptual language, the performative and institutional dimensions of thinking, and the ethical-political stakes of declaring an 'end' to traditional philosophy. The work also analyzes how antiphilosophical gestures can be institutionalized or recuperated, highlighting the tension between radical dissent and cultural incorporation.
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2. Russian Cosmism
A concise intellectual history that traces a distinctly Russian strand of thought linking religion, science and art around the aspiration to overcome death and colonize the cosmos, arguing that the desire for physical immortality and collective resurrection shaped the Soviet project and the avant-garde as much as faith or ideology did; the book examines key Cosmist ideas—resurrection, technoscientific utopianism, the aestheticization of future projects, the archival impulse to preserve and reanimate the past—and shows how these currents reappear in modern art, political imaginaries and contemporary debates about technology, collective subjectivity and the meaning of progress.
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3. Русский космизм. Антология
Антология
Антология представляет ключевые тексты русского космизма — от философов и учёных рубежа XIX–XX веков до мыслителей советского периода — и демонстрирует объединяющую идею о преобразовании человечества в космическую силу через науку, технику и нравственное возрождение. Сборник раскрывает темы бессмертия и всеобщего воскрешения, преодоления границ между природой и техникой, эстетизации научного знания и утопической веры в возможность космического преобразования мира, а также прослеживает влияние этих идей на культуру и политику XX века. Тексты снабжены историческими комментариями, которые помогают соотнести философские положения с их контекстом и современным значением.
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