Biography

1. Personal data:

Name: Antonina S. Arkhangelskaya Born: Octobre 17, 1931, Volgograd, Russia Home address: 6, Nauchnaya Street 16, Simferopol, Vuzgorodok, 333030, Crimea, Ukraine Home telephone: + 38 0652 263924 Office telephone: (380652) 230251, fax (380652) 232310 E-mail:anton@ccssu.crimea.ua

2. Master of philosophy since 1977; defended the thesis at Moscow University, philosophy department; outside review of the Academy of Sciences. The title of the thesis: " Interaction of Scientific and Artistic Cognition".

3. Posts occupied:

1954-1957 - tearcher of philosophy for Russian employeers, Germany ( former GDR ), Aue, Yena, Zwikkau, Hemnitz. 1957-1958 - junior school teacher in Eastern Siberia, Zabaikalye, Sayany, settlement of Ilchyr. 1958-1960 - Ministry of Culture official in Buryat Autonomy, Ulan- Ude. 1960-1963 - newspaper reporter in the department of culture of " Pravda Buryatii". 1963-1975 - senior teacher at the department of philosophy of Simferopol State University (SSU), Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine. 1978- up till now - assistant professor at the department of philosophy of Simferopol State University.

4. Other data:

graduated from Leningrad State University in 1954, defended diploma at the chair of Russian philosophy. It was an attempt to investigate the first 20 years of G.V. Plekhanov's creative activities. In Leningrad ( Saint Petersberg ) at the Academy of Sciences a special committee on combined investigation of scientific and artistic creative work was set up. It was supervised by B.S. Meilakh, doctor of philology. The affiliations of the committee were also set up at many university centers of the state. I headed the Crime affiliation of the committee for several years. In 1969 I set up a discussion club for students and postgraduates of SSU. We have been discussing actual problems of personal relationship, ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy etc.

 

Lectures

1. Spiritual Resources of Nature and the Necessity of Forming a New Environmental Culture. Relations between the traditional Eastern Wisdom of dealing with Nature and Western Reverence for Being.
2. Dialogics and Maximalism - the Culture of Dialogue and the Tradition of Monologue, the perspective of expending the Influence of Culture Dialogics in all spheres of human intercourse and activity.
3. Landscape Thinking - both Home and Foreign ( Japanese Lyrics as an example ). Universalism and Continuity, some Paradoxes of Comparative Analysis.
4. The Hypothesis of New Syncretism Appearance and of Usefulness of Integration processes between Scientific and Humanitarian Knowledge, Migration of Terms and Metaphors, Mutual Enrichment of Natural and Artificial Languages.
5. The Influence of German Romanticism, its reasons and manifestation, Philosophising ( according to Jaspers) and Essay-writing.
6. Interaction of Philosophy and Philology, philosophical Poetry, its traditions in Germany, Russia, Great Britain and the USA.
7. Irony and Great Possibilities the Comic, Wit and Witticism in Science and Philosophy. From Socratus' Maephtics to Irony Ontology of brothers A&F Shlegel. Lux A.N. - Humour and witticism in creative process. The Saving Role of Self- Irony. Irony as a way to survive.

Published works:

a) books:
1. Granin D.A., Grekova E.S., Kon I.S., Migdal A.B., Meilakh A.B., Arkhangelskaya A.S. ets. " Scientific- technical Revolution and Development of Artistic Creative Work". Leningrad, Nauka, LO, 1980 ( in Russian).
2. Kagan M.S., Kelle V.G., Sagatovsky V.N., Arkhangelskaya A.S. "Dialectics and Modern Style of Thinking", Sevastopol, 1983.
3. Kalnoy I.I., Lazarev F.V., Arkhangelskaya A.S. etc. " Man and Society", a text book, Simferopol, 1994
b) other works:
1. Arkhangelskaya A.S. "The problem of Syncretic Style in Scientific Creative Work" Journal " Philosophical Science", moscow, 1976,©3, pp.145-149
2. Arkhangelskaya A.S. "Motivation of Artistic Work - the Dialectics of the Objective and the Subjective". The collection of theses IV Seminar on problems of methodology and theory of Artistic Work .
3. Arkhangelskaya A.S. "The Phenomenon of Strannichestvo ( from Russ. " Strannik - a pilgrim or a wanderer ) and the Polysemy of Alienation". The Collection of Theses of the International Scientific-technical Conference. " The Phenomenon of Alienation in Various Cultural Paradigms", Simferopol, 1993
4. Arkhangelskaya A.S. Crimea The Spiritual Resources of Nature. On the Problem of So-called Epicentres of Being, The Culture of Prichernomorye ( the Black Sea Region), Simferopol, 1998.