Mykhailo Minakov
The Uncanny Influence of Totalitarianism:
Soviet Philosophy and Contemporary
Intellectual Landscape
The essay invites to think about the nature of malaise that engulfed the contemporary philosophical thought in Ukraine, which the author relates to the Soviet past. Minakov reflects on the question: What is Soviet philosophy? The author emphasizes the fluidity and historicity of the phenomenon under the conditions of steady ideological pressure. He notes presence of Soviet philosophy in the institutional structure of contemporary Ukrainian philosophy and its language and calls on the colleagues-philosophers to embrace methodological and stylistic openness, to discard institutionalization of the discipline within the system of the National Academy of Sciences, and foster mul-tidisciplinary research.