Rationality as
Pragmatic Worldly Prudence:
Kant’s Anthropology
and the Modern Social Sciences
DFG Project, May 2021 – April 2024
Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of Philosophy
Chair of Modern Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Marcus Willaschek)
Alexey Salikov works at the Institute of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt. After receiving his PhD in Philosophy (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University), he taught or held researcher and administrative positions in Kaliningrad (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University), Berlin (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences & Humanities, BBAW), and Moscow (National Research University Higher School of Economics, HSE). His main interests include Kant’s and Hannah Arendt’s philosophy, history of political
thought, public sphere theory, social media and political communication. Among his recent publications are Some political aspects of Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology (2018), Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, and rethinking the public sphere in the age of social media (2018), The Concept of Race in Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology (2018, in cooperation with A. Zhavoronkov), The digital transformation of the public sphere, its features in the context of various political regimes, and its possible influence on political processes (2019), Political Dimension of Kant’s Lectures on Anthropology (2020).
© Alexey Salikov, Thomas Sturm, Alexey Zhavoronkov 2022-2024
