Philosophy in Ukraine (an attempt at historiography). Second edition, corrected and supplemented. Part I: Prague, Siyach, 1928, 142p.

The second edition of Chyzhevskyi's work “Philosophy in Ukraine” is based on somewhat expanded material that was found by Chyzhevskyi after the publication of the first edition (1926) and supplemented by several members of the Ukrainian historico-philological society in Prague. The volume contains only the first part of the intended revised work, which ends with a section on the philosophy of Hryhoriy Skovoroda.

An important supplement to the second edition is Chyzhevskyi's brief responses to some of the reviews of the first edition of “Philosophy in Ukraine” that were published in both emigrant journals and collections and in academic periodicals of the Ukrainian SSR. In particular, they contain Chyzhevskyi's arguments regarding certain methodological approaches he took in preparing the first edition (e.g., the criteria for selecting the figures discussed in the work), as well as responses to a number of critical points made by reviewers regarding the interpretation of certain subjects in his history of Ukrainian philosophy.

Kateryna Skrypnyk

CONTENTS

Preface to the second edition

From the preface to the first edition

Introduction

1. The problem of national philosophy
2. The problem of the history of Ukrainian philosophy

General overview of history

Philosophy in Ukraine

Folk worldview

The Middle Ages

XVII-XVIII centuries

Skovoroda

Appendices

I. My reviewers

II. Additions and corrections

III. One more ‘reviewer’

Index