A. Grišinas |  D. Brandišauskas |  D. Daukšas  |  I. Šidiškienė  |  R. Paukštytė-Šaknienė  |  V. Savoniakaitė  |  V. Tumėnas  |  Ž. Šaknys |  N. Klumbytė  |  Z. B. Simon  |  E. Rindzevičiūtė  |  M. Minakov  |  A. Kitovas

A. Sadauskienė  |  G. Lukoševičiūtė  |  R. Rauluševičienė

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  Mykhailo Minakov, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy and Political Science

  Senior Researcher

  Education

 1996 Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. 1998 Master’s degree in sPhilosophy, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. 2000 PhD in Philosophy, Hryhorii Skovoroda Institute sof Philosophy. 2008 Habilitated Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Hryhorii Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy. s2023 habilitation in Political Philosophy and the History of International Relations.

 

 Research interests and specialisations: Philosophy of history, political modernity, post-Soviet political and intellectual transformations, Ukrainian statehood, ideologies, as well as the history and theory of international relations in Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia.

 

Key publications

Books

Monographs, book chapters

• The Post-Soviet Human. Philosophical Reflections on Social History after the End of Communism (Stuttgart: ibidem Verlag, 2024).
• Диалектика современности в Восточной Европе [išvertus iš rusų k.: Dialectics of modernity in Eastern Europe] (Kyiv: Laurus, 2020).
• История опыта [išvertus iš rusų k.: History of Experience] (Kyiv: Laurus, 2019). Knyga prieinama ukrainiečių kalba: Історія поняття досвіду (Kyiv: Tsentr praktychnoyi filosofii, 2007).
• Development and Dystopia. Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2018).
• Вчення Канта про віру розуму [išvertus iš ukrainiečių k.: Kant’s Teaching on Faith of Reason] (Kyiv: Tsentr praktychnoyi filosofii, 2001).

Publications in peer-reviewed academic journals

• “The Absent Sovereign and the Invisible Foundation. Political Liberalism’s Aporias in
  Theorizing Constituent Power”, Philosophy & Social Criticism. DOI:
  10.1177/01914537261434929
• “Linguistic Sovereignty and the Ontology of Rights: The State Language
  Commissioner in Post-Transit Ukraine”, Ab Imperio 3 (2025): 56–77. DOI:
  10.1353/imp.2025.a977004
• “Theoretical Reproduction in Shadows of Dual Coloniality: Decolonial Theory in
  Eastern Europe and Northern Eurasia”, Ideology and Politics Journal 28(2): 23–48. DOI:
  10.36169/2227-6068.2025.02.00002
• “Freedom and Progress at the Dawn of the Age of Will: The Struggle of Two
  Enlightenments in the Current Euro-Atlantic Debate”, The Ideology and Politics
  Journal 1(27) (2025): 97–144. DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2025.01.00005
• “Kantian Studies in Contemporary Ukraine”, Studies in East European Thought, 2025,
  DOI: 10.1007/s11212-025-09721-1
• “Balancing Coercion and Extortion: Change and Continuity in Ukrainian Statehood”,
  Nuovi Autoritarismi e Democrazie: Diritto, Istituzioni, Società 7(1) (2025): 85–97. DOI:
  10.54103/2612-6672/28780
• “Between Historicity and Normativity. Reception of German Classical Philosophy in
  Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Philosophical Studies.” Intersezioni. Review of the History
  of Ideas 3 (2024): 281–306. DOI: 10.1404/115078
• “The End of a Great Era: Post-Soviet Transformation in a Historical Perspective”,
  Nuovi Autoritarismi e Democrazie: Diritto, Istituzioni, Società 5(1) (2023): 178–193.
  DOI: 10.54103/2612-6672/20507
• “Political creativity and its democratic and autocratic outcomes: The case of the
  post-Soviet period, 1989–2022”, Ideology and Politics Journal 23(1) (2023): 57–107.
  DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2023.01.00003
• “The Prehistory of Post-Soviet Philosophies”, Ideology and Politics Journal 1(20)
  (2022): 8–43. DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2022.01.00001
• “The Protest Movements’ Opportunities and Outcomes: The Euromaidan and the
  Belarusian
  Protest–2020 Compared”, Protest 1(2) (2021): 272–298.
  DOI: 10.1163/2667372X-01020004
• “The Sovereigntist Turn: Sovereignty as a Contested Concept Again”, Ideology and
  Politics Journal 1(17) (2021): 87–112. DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2020.01.00019
• “Othering from Within. The Ideological Function of Ukrainian Institute of National
  Remembrance in 2015–2018”, Ideology and Politics Journal 2(16) (2020): 215–228.
• “Post-Soviet Eastern Europe. Achievements in Post-Soviet Development in Six
  Eastern European Nations, 1991–2020”, Ideology and Politics Journal 3(14) (2019):
  171–193.
• "On the extreme periphery. The status of post-Soviet non-recognised states in the
  world-system”, Ideology and Politics Journal 2(13) (2019): 39–72.
• “Модерність і мир. Уроки прикладного просвітництва Канта” [from Ukrainian:
  Modernity and Peace. The Lessons of Kant’s Applied Enlightenment]. Ukraina
  Moderna 26 (2019): 99–117.
• “Возвращение к самому важному: Философское восстание Льва Шестова” [from
  Russian: A return to the most important: Lev Shestov’s philosophical rebellion],
  Istoriia filosofii 23(1) (2018): 82–95. DOI: 10.21146/2074-5869-2018-23-1-82-95
• (in co-authorship with Stefano Bianchini) “State-building Politics after the Yugoslav
  and Soviet Collapse: The Western Balkans and Ukraine in a Comparative
  Perspective”. Southeastern Europe Journal 3(42) (2018): 291–304. DOI:
  10.1163/18763332-04203001

• “Utopian Images of the West and Russia Among Supporters and Opponents of the Euromaidan:

  Elements of Ideological Framing of the Conflict in Ukraine in 2013 2014”. Russian Politics & Law 53(3) (2015): 68—85.
  DOI:10.1080/10611940.2015.1053785

Political Science and the History of International Relations

• “War-Making and Autocratisation in Post-Soviet States, 1991-2025”. Quaderni di
  Scienze Politiche 29 (2025): 133–160. 10.69117/QDSP.28.2025.06
• (co-authored with Dmytro Vovk) “Ukraine: Constitutional Amendments in 2024”. In: Barroso, Luis Roberto and Albert, Richard (Eds). The 2024 International Review of Constitutional Reform (pp. 473–476). Published by the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism 2024, 2025. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5706743
• “Postsowjetische De-facto Staaten: Die politischen Systeme Abchasiens und
  Transnitriens in vergleichender Perspektive”, in: Priebus, S., Beichelt, T. (Hrsg.).
  (2025). Die politischen Systeme im östlichen Europa. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2025, 365
  390. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-43647-6_19
• “Eurasian Middle Powers in a Changing Interstate System: The Cases of Turkey and
  Kazakhstan.” Annual Review of Global Affairs 1 (2024): 367–380.
• (co-authored with Dmytro Vovk) “Ukraine: Constitutional Amendments in 2023”. In:
  Barroso, Luis Roberto and Albert, Richard (Eds). The 2023 International Review of
  Constitutional Reform (Austin: University of Texas, 2024), 378–382.
• “Patronalism and Political Systems of the Post-Soviet De Facto States: The Cases of
  Abkhazian and Transnistrian Resilience”, Quaderni di Scienze Politiche 25 (2024) 49
  78.
• “War, De-Oligarchization, and the Possibility of Anti-Patronal Transformation in
  Ukraine”. In: Madlovics, B., Magyar, B. (eds.). Ukraine's Patronal Democracy and the
  Russian Invasion: The Russia-Ukraine War. Vol. 1. (Budapest: CEU Press, 2023), 141
  166. DOI: 10.7829/jj.3985461.9.
• “Elections in Wartime Ukraine Would Test Ukraine’s Legal-Political Flexibility”,
  Kennan Cable 59 (2023): 1–9.
• “Ukraine: Constitutional Amendments in 2022”. In: Barroso, Luis Roberto and Albert,
  Richard (eds), The 2022 International Review of Constitutional Reform, Austin:
  University of Texas, 2023, 317–320.
• “Un siècle de système politique ukrainien : l'expérience de construction d'un État en
  Europe orientale aux XX e et XXI e siècles”, Connexe 8 (2022): 169–186.
  DOI: 10.5077/journals/connexe.2022.e1029.

History of Philosophy and Ideas

• “Away from Homo sovieticus: Images of Departure from the Soviet Past in Ukrainian
  and Russian Literature and Philosophy of the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century”,
  in Thomas Grob, Tomáš Glanc, Anna Hodel, and Gunnar Lenz (Eds.), Imagining the
  Post-Soviet 1990s: Literature, Art, Performance, Cinema. London: Routledge, 2025
• “Truth, Meontology, and Democracy. A Polemical Engagement with Arvydas
  Grišinas’s The Western Crisis of Truth in the Early 21st Century”, Ideology and Politics
  Journal 28(2): 158–167.
• “Engineers of New Souls. Post-Soviet Caesura and the Design of New Social Worlds
  in the Philosophy and Literature of Ukraine and Russia in the 1990s” [in Ukr.:
  Інженери нових душ. Пострадянська цезура і проєктування нових соціальних
  світів у філософії і літературі України та Росії у 1990-х роках], Kοινὴ. The Almanac
  of Philosophical Essays 4 (2025): 1–59.
• (in co-authroship with Simon Radchenko) “The Structure of Archaeological
  Knowledge and the Concept of Archaeological Culture: The Perspective of Actor
  Network Theory” [in Ukr.: Структура археологічного знання та поняття
  археологічної культури: Пропозиції до перегляду в перспективі акторно
  мережевої теорії]. Archeologia – Археологія 4 (2024): 104–124.
  https://doi.org/10.15407/arheologia2024.04.104
• “Towards an Ontology of the Caesura. Reflections on the Russian-Ukrainian war.” In:
  Vanbrabant, J. (ed.) Philosophers on the Russian Aggression in Ukraine (Nordhausen:
  Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, 2023), 53–67.
• “German Classics in East of Europe. The study of German classical philosophy in the
  late USSR and post-Soviet Belarus, Russia and Ukraine” [in Rus.: Немецкие классики
  на Востоке Европы. Изучение немецкой классической философии в позднем
  СССР и постсоветских Беларуси, России и Украине], Kοινὴ. The Almanac of
  Philosophical Essays 3 (2023): 68–122.
• “Philosophy Unchained. Introductory Notes on the Post-Soviet Philosophical
  Condition”. In: Minakov, M. (ed.) Philosophy Unchained. Developments in Post-Soviet
  Philosophical Thought (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2023), 17–20.
• “The Soviet Philosophical Condition. Adventures of Philosophy in Soviet Union”. In:
  Minakov, M. (ed.) Philosophy Unchained. Developments in Post-Soviet Philosophical
  Thought (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2023), 21–74.
• “Gift and Bribe: Political Ontology of Eastern European Chiasm of Modernity and
  Tradition”. In: Kiryukhin, D. (ed.) Community and tradition in global times (Washington,
  D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2021), 195–209.
• (in co-authorship with Yana Prymachenko) “The Velvet Revolutions of 1989: A
  Lasting 'End of History'?”, Ideology and Politics Journal 3(14) (2019): 4–9.

Social Sciences and History

• (in co-authorship with Etkind, Alexander) “«We have no postcolonial theory as
  such, but only different imperial experiences». A Conversation with Alexander Etkind
  on the Imperial Experience of Russia in Global Perspective”. eSamizdat, XIV (2021):
  185–190.
• “Всемирно-гражданское значение беларусского протеста – 2020 и
  постсоветских протестных движений” [from Russian: Universal significance of the
  Belarussian protest – 2020 and of other post-Soviet protest movements], TOPOS.
  Journal for Philosophy and Cultural Studies, 2 (2021): 45–74.
• “La caduta dell’URSS: 30 anni di transizione” (parte 1, parte 2, ), La nuova Europa
  (20.12.2021).
• “Between Fire and Fire. From Flash to Flash of the Ukrainian Revolutions.” In
  Between Fire and Fire. Ukrainian Art Now. Kyiv, 2019 (Exhibition catalog): 120–130.
• “Demodernization in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe.” In: Rabkin, Y., M. Minakov
  (eds). Demodernization: The Future in the Past (Stuttgart: ibidem, 2018): 241–260.

 

Contacts:

Email: mikhailminakov1971@gmail.com

ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0619-7321