Kostjantyn Sihow

Kostjantyn Sihow, 2014

Kostjantyn Borysovyč Sihov ( Ukrainian Костянтин Борисович Сігов ; scientific transliteration Kostjantyn Borysovyč Sihov ; born May 31, 1962 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian philosopher , publisher and politically active citizen.

biography

Born in Kiev on May 31, 1962 as the son of a professor of programming, Kostjantyn Sihow studied (in international contexts always Constantin Sigov) from 1979 to 1984 at the Kiev Institute for Civil Engineers. In 1986 he moved to the Skoworoda Institute for Philosophy of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and received his doctorate there in 1990 with the thesis “The game as a problem of philosophical anthropology”. From 1986 to 1991 he was Scientific Secretary of the Philosophical Society of Ukraine. After completing his dissertation, Sihow moved to Paris to the Collège de France in 1991 . From 1992 to 1995 he taught as an assistant professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). He is married to the artist Iryna (née Pasternak), with whom he has two sons and a daughter. The older son Oleksiy (Alex) works by his side in the publishing house.

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At the same time as his lecturing activity in Paris, he led the establishment of a department “France-Ukraine” at the Kiev Mohyla Academy, which was re - established in 1992 , from which the “Center for European Research in the Humanities” developed in 1996, of which Professor Sihow is now the director. Also in 1992 he founded the humanities publishing house “Duch i litera” (Spirit and Letter), in which the magazine of the same name has been published since 1997. The conference volumes of the annual "Uspenskoje-Tschtenie" (Mariae-Dormition-Lectures), international and interdenominational autumn conferences in the Kiev -Pechersk Lavra are published here . They go back to Sihow's contacts with the religious philosopher Sergei Averinzew . Since then, numerous well-known works by European scholars in the fields of theology, philosophy, history and political science, and sociology have been published in the publishing house, which, along with Krytyka, the publishing house of the Mohyla Academy and the Ukrainian Catholic University, is one of the most important stimulating intellectual publishers in Ukraine and literature has appeared in translations; examples are W. Kasper, P. Ricoeur, W. Röd, R. Koselleck, K. Sontheimer, N. Luhmann, B. Schulz. The now four-volume “European Dictionary of Philosophy” in Ukrainian adaptation is important. Sihow, an Orthodox Christian, maintains intensive ecumenical contacts in Paris and Italy, as well as with the Kiev Judaic Institute (Leonid Finberg). The publishing contacts resulted in lecturing and teaching activities at universities and at conferences in Paris, Oxford, Stanford, Geneva, Louvain, Rome, Bose, etc. At the latest with the Euromaidan , Sihow entered the wider political public. During the visit of Ukrainian politicians and Maidan activists to Paris in spring 2014, he was one of the important bridge builders and interlocutors. Since then, he has published a number of works in his publishing house that aim to accompany the further process of transformation of Ukrainian society: books by the Polish literary scholar Ola Hnatiuk , works by the Ukrainian writers Vasyl Stus , Boris Chersonsky , a monograph by Timothy Snyder, documents on the Maidan, etc. Sihow himself has published a number of publications, books and essays, including several in Western European magazines and anthologies since his dissertation.

Awards

Sihow has received numerous awards for his achievements. In 2005 he received two awards: on the one hand, he was named Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French Ministry of Education , and on the other hand, the Ukraine awarded him the Ukrainian Order of Merit, Third Class.

literature

Chto je chto v Ukraini 2007, 891.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Sihov's bibliography up to 2009: http://duh-i-litera.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Bibliography_K.Sigov_z-1989.pdf . His latest essay in German translation is: "The Ukrainian turn: From homo soveticus to homo dignus", in: Una Sancta 72 (2017) 146–154.