Duh і Litera, 1997, No01-02: Kyiv: FAKT, 1997, 466 p.

Synopsis

A Word to Our Readers

Ukraine today

The Lysiak-Rudnytsky Interdisciplinary Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine

Volodymyr Kulyk – Nationalism in Contemporary Ukraine

Ihor Sevčenko – Ukraine between East and West

In the Shadow of Empire

Roman Szporluk – The Fall of the Tsarist Empire and the USSR: The Russian Question and the Excesses of the Expansion

Vadym Skurativs`kyi – The Landscape after Battle – The Landscape before Battle?

Alexandr Shmeman – A Meaningful Storm (Towards the Problem of an «Autocephalous» Orthodox Church in America)

Ievhen Rashkovs`kyi – India and Russia: The Challenge of Fundamentalism

The Laws of Power or The Power of Laws

Kostiantyn Sigov – The Differing Power of a Different Justice (Simone Weil`s The Need for Roots at the Crossroads of History and Philosophy)

Simone Weil – The Need for Roots (An Excerpt)

T. S. Eliot – Preface to Simone Weil`s The Need for Roots

Georges Bernanos – The Cynicism of Power and the Hypocrisy of Law

Blaise Pascal – On Justice (An Excerpt from Pensées)

Oleh Khoma – Pascal on Justice in Society: Machines, Law, and Power

Viktor Malakhov – Emmanuel Lévinas: The View from Kyiv

Emmanuel Lévinas – Philosophy, Justice, and Love. The Rights of Man and Good-Will

Paul Ricoeur – Forgiven and given

The Kyiv CIrcle

Lev Shestov – What is Bolshevism?

Personal Profile

Olga Sedakova – « Recurrent Dreams Like Blood Clots» (Iu. M. Lotman and Structuralism in the Context of the Culture of the 1970s)

Ambigua

Olga Sedakova – Post-Modernism: The Appropriation of Estrangement

Viktor Malakhov – Why am I not a Post-Modernist?

Viktor Andrushko – «Black, but Beautiful»: Revisiting the Problem of the Audio-Visual Character of the Aesthetics of the Middle Ages

Christos Yannaras – Beauty