NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

Maxim Demin is a research fellow at the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). His primary field of interest is post-Hegelian philosophy and its intellectual development in German-speaking countries during the 19th century. Before moving to Bochum, he worked for nearly a decade at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (HSE) in St. Petersburg and Moscow, where he taught courses in critical thinking, philosophy of science, metaethics, and moral psychology. He is currently working on the philosophical and public Russian debates related to the emergence of studies of human and animal psychology and mental phenomena. His project examines the transfer of psychological studies from the early 19th century in the Russian Empire to the early years of the Soviet regime.

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Conservative Enlightenment, Adam Fischer, and the Restriction of the Teaching of Philosophy at Russian Universities in the 1850s'. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-025-09826-7

Remapping Ukrainian Philosophy: Čyževs’kyj’s Approach to the History of Philosophy in Eastern Europe'. https://doi.org/10.14712/23366680.2025.1.6

Aristotle in Prussian Gymnasiums: Why the Texts of the Ancient Philosopher Became Popular for Teaching Logic

Писатель как философ: Философская рефлексия над русской литературой в конце XIX - начале ХХ вв.