Vilen Horskyi: Touches, Meanings, Contemplation: Kyiv, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2011, 385 p.

The collection is a comprehensive reflection on the life, philosophical legacy, and scholarly work of Vilen Serhiiovych Horskyi, one of the prominent Ukrainian historians of philosophy of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The authors present Horskyi not only as a researcher of the history of Ukrainian philosophy, but also as a thinker, teacher, and intellectual for whom philosophizing was a way of reflecting on culture, the human being, and his own spiritual experience.

Particular attention is paid to his historical-philosophical methodology, the problems of the national and cultural identity of Ukrainian philosophy, the interconnection between a thinker's biography and his work, and the specific features of studying philosophical traditions.

Memoirs, interviews, and Horskyi's own texts complement the academic studies with a vivid portrait of the scholar, who viewed the university and philosophical education as a space for the formation of the person and of the love of wisdom.

Contents

Maryna Tkachuk
Vilen Horskyi: On the Way to Himself

VILEN HORSKYI AS A HISTORIAN OF PHILOSOPHY

Vitalii Darenskyi
Philosophy as the Semantic Projectivity of Culture (On Vilen Horskyi's Key Methodological Innovation)

Vadym Menzhulin
With Love for the Creator: Biographical Components of Historical-Philosophical Cognition in Vilen Horskyi's Vision

Taras Zakydalskyi
Vilen Horskyi, Historian of Ukrainian Philosophy

Ivan Lysyi
The National-Cultural Identity of Ukrainian Philosophy in Vilen Horskyi's Vision

Serhii Kapranov
Vilen Horskyi's Historical-Philosophical Methodology and the Problems of Studying Japanese Philosophy

Problems of Historical-Philosophical Methodology in the Works of Vilen Horskyi
(From the Proceedings of the Scholarly Seminar of the Department of the History of Ukrainian Philosophy, H. S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, NAS of Ukraine)
(Prepared by Olena Vdovyna)

VILEN HORSKYI'S "MOHYLIANSKA HOPE"

Tetiana Chaika
The Liberal Arts University, or How Many Skovorodas Does Ukrainian Culture Need?
(From Conversations with Vilen Serhiiovych Horskyi)

How to Learn the Love of Wisdom
(From a Conversation of Yuliia Bielova with Vilen Horskyi)

The Main Mission of Universities Is the Enlightenment of the Soul
(Vilen Horskyi's Answer to Mykhailo Brynykh's Question on the Prospects of the "Overproduction" of Philosophers in Ukraine)

Liudmyla Arkhypova
School Without Schoolishness: Horskyi's Lessons

A WORD ABOUT A COLLEAGUE AND TEACHER

Vladimir Yantsen
In Bright Memory of Vilen Sergeevich Horskyi

Viktor Malakhov, Tetiana Chaika
A Word About a Good Philosopher

Mykhailo Minakov
Two Conversations About the Beginning... and the Beginning

Viktor Kotusenko
Vilen Horskyi: Human Being, Philosopher, Teacher

Yurii Zavhorodnii
The Teacher Has Gone, but the Dialogue with Him Continues
(In Bright Memory of My Academic Teacher Vilen Serhiiovych Horskyi)

Taras Liutyi
A Brief Word About Vilen Horskyi

Oleksandr Kyrychok
The Image of the Teacher

Olena Levchenko
The Ethos of "Light" Being

VILEN HORSKYI: ON TIME AND ON HIMSELF

Vilen Horskyi's Interview with Yurii Zavhorodnii

Vilen Horskyi
Thinkers at the Head of the State Are Merely an Ancient Illusion (A Conversation with Mykhailo Brynykh)

Vilen Horskyi
Some Remarks on the History of the History of Philosophy (Subjective Reflections on the Occasion of an Anniversary)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC MATERIALS

Vilen Horskyi: Milestones of His Biography
(Compiled by Maryna Tkachuk)

The Legacy of Vilen Horskyi (1931–2007): A Bibliographic Index
(Compiled by Maryna Tkachuk, Yaryna Yurynets)

Information About the Authors