Volodymyr Yermolenko (Володимир Анатолійович Єрмоленко; born 1980)
is a Ukrainian
philosopher
Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
, essayist, translator, doctor of political studies (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences: EHESS, Paris), candidate of philosophical sciences (Kyiv, 2009), and senior lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is laureate of the
Yurii Sheveliov Prize (2018) and of the Petro Mohyla Award (2021).
Biography
Yermolenko was born Kyiv to a family of philosophers. His father, Anatolii Yermolenko, was director of the Institute of Philosophy. His mother taught philosophy at
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute ( KPI, ; official full title National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute") is a national public technological university in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Name
In the long period of existenc ...
. He wrote his first philosophical work, "Buddhism and Western Culture", at the age of 15 for the Minor Academy of Sciences
In 2002, he graduated from
NaUKMA
The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy ( NaUKMA, ), colloquially known as Mohylianka (), is a highly ranked national state-sponsored research university located in a historic section of Kyiv, Ukraine. The university is bilingual in Uk ...
, and in 2003 from the
Central European University
Central European University (CEU; , ) is a private research university in Vienna. The university offers graduate and undergraduate programs in the social sciences and humanities, which are accredited in Austria and the United States. The univ ...
(Budapest). In 2011, he defended his doctoral thesis at the
School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). He teaches at the
Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
In 2020, together with Tetiana Oharkova, Yermolenko started the Kult podcast, dedicated to defining epochs in the history of culture and cult authors who had a great influence on the development of literature and culture.
Prizes
*2018, Yurii Sheveliov Prize for ''Fluid Ideologies''
*2018/ "Book of the Year" in 2 nominations, for ''Fluid Ideologies''.
*2021, Petro Mohyla Prize: for ''Fluid Ideologies''
Books
*''The Storyteller and Philosopher
Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin ( ; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German-Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Jewish mysticism, Western M ...
and His Time'', Krytyka, Ukrainian Scientific Institute of Harvard University, 2011
*''Distant Relatives'', Krytyka, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2015
*''Ocean Catcher: The Story of Odysseus'', Stary Lev, 2017.
*''Fluid ideologies. Ideas and Politics in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries'', 2018.
Publications
* Оповідач і філософ: Вальтер Беньямін та його час / В. Єрмоленко. — Київ: Критика, 2011. — 280 с.
* Далекі близькі. Есеї з філософії та літератури / В. Єрмоленко. — Львів: Видавництво Старого Лева, 2015. — 304 с.
* Ловець океану: Історія Одіссея / В. Єрмоленко. — Львів: Видавництво Старого Лева, 2017. — 216 с.
* «Плинні ідеології. Ідеї та політика в Європі ХІХ–ХХ століть»/ В.Єрмоленко — К.: ДУХ I ЛIТЕРА, 2018. — 480 с
From Pushkin to Putin: Russian Literature’s Imperial Ideology-
Foreign Policy
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25 June 2022
References
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1980 births
Living people
Ukrainian philosophers
Ukrainian essayists
People from Kyiv
Central European University alumni