Authors

Juliette Faure¹;  ¹ Université Paris-Panthéon Assas, France

Discussion

In November 2022, Russian philosophers in exile parted ways with their home institute, the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences, to create the International Association of scholars in humanities, based in Paris. Framed as a cosmopolitan community of scholars committed to foster critical thinking, the association is directly competed and targeted by Moscow philosophy centres run by conservative intellectuals dedicated to the development of a patriotic, imperialist ideology meant to justify Russia’s war against Ukraine. This paper investigates how this internationalisation and fragmentation of the Russian intellectual field raises new debates about the identity, definition and orientation of Russian philosophy.