The German-language library of Arseniy Gulyga is open to readers of RUDN

You will find it in the library!

 

In the reading room of the scientific library, located in the building of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (ul. Miklukho-Maklaya 10k2, off. 201), books on philosophy and related subjects from the German-language library of Arseny Vladimirovich Gulyga (1921-1996) are available for students and teachers. Rodion Shafikov, an employee of the Scientific Library and a graduate student in the Department of the History of Philosophy, talks about the history and content of the collection.

 

Arseny Vladimirovich Gulyga was an outstanding specialist in German and Russian philosophy. The fruits of his labors were many high-quality translations of the most important philosophical texts of German idealism, which are still used by researchers of this direction. Arseny Vladimirovich also wrote a number of important works on the history of philosophy. The general reader knows him as the author of biographies of Kant, Hegel and Schelling, as well as Schopenhauer (co-authored with I.S. Andreeva), published in the series "The Lives of Remarkable People" - excellent popular introductions to the philosophical legacy of these difficult-to-understand thinkers.

 

Arseny Vladimirovich's books were translated into European and Eastern languages, and were also highly valued by specialists in Germany. Arseny Vladimirovich's heirs donated books in German from his personal collection to our university. These are the most important philosophical primary sources, and research literature on the history of philosophy and culture in German.

 

The pearl of the collection can be called the edition of Hegel's "Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences", printed in Stuttgart in 1927 - still in Gothic font. Classical German philosophy, to the study of which Arseny Vladimirovich devoted his life, is represented in his library by other key figures: Kant, Schelling and Fichte. The collection also includes works by German romantics (Goethe, Lessing, Schiller), as well as outstanding German-speaking philosophers of the 20th century: Heidegger and Jaspers, Gadamer and Cassirer, Lukacs and Benjamin, Freud and Jung.

 

There are also German editions of works by those thinkers who wrote in other languages: Kierkegaard, Camus, Levi-Strauss, Ortega y Gasset. As you can see, the collection presents the main philosophical trends of European philosophy of the 19th century: German idealism and romanticism, existentialism, phenomenology and hermeneutics, structuralism, neo-Kantianism, neo-Marxism and psychoanalysis. The collection gives us an idea of ​​the truly wide range of philosophical interests of Arseniy Vladimirovich.

 

All books in the collection are open for review to visitors of the reading room of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. We hope that they will be of interest to both university teachers and students studying philosophy and German. We look forward to your visits and encourage you to continue following our news!