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Roman V. SVETLOV

Ph. D., Dr.Sc., Professor.

Director of the Institute of philosophy of man, Herzen University
Head of Russian Plato Society.

Basic areas of research: Plato and Platonism, ancient philosophy and culture, religion studies, contemporary theology.

Basic publications:

  • Plato. Statesman. Study, Translation, commenary by Roman Svetlov. SPb, 2019. (In Russian).
  • The grammatical treatise De Analogia and linguistic conservatism of Julius Caesar in the context of the ancient language policy. // Schole. Vol. 13, N 1, 2019, P. 315-329 (in co-operation with Denis Fedorov) (In Russian)
  • Svetlov Roman. Pietro il Grande come «Nuovo Costantino» alcuni aspetti della politica religiosa del suo regno. // Nuova Rivista Storica, 2018, 2, Р. 789-798. 
  • The Concept of Natural Law: from Plato to Philo // Schole. 2018. V. 12. № 2. С. 643-658 (in co-operation with Elena Alymova) (In Russian)
  • Ideology and history: the history of Russia as a subject of ideological competition. SPb, 2017. (In Russian)
  • Julian the Apostate and his “Letter to the Jewish Community”// Voprosy filosofii№ 3 P. 154-162. (In Russian)
  • Socrates in the context of the ancient imagination. // ΣΧΟΛΗ Vol. 9. 1 (2015), С. 169-184.(In Russian)
  • Plato and Euhemerus: “Egyptian Logos” and “Sacra Historia” // Gosudarstvo, religiya, Cerkov’ v Rossii i za rubezhom. 2015, V. 33 № 3, P. 382-396. (InRussian)
  • Anguage and indivisibility in the philosophy of Plato. // Voprosy filosofii. 8, 2014. P. 128-137. InRussianThe Essenes as the Pythagoreans: Predestination in Pythagoreanism, Platonism and the Qumran theology. // ΣΧΟΛΗ Vol. 8. 1 (2014). P. 50-53, (in co-operation with Igor Tantlevsky) 

The Northern Caucasus Affiliation

On March 25, 2015, the Northern Caucasus affiliation of our Chair was inaugurated in the city of Derbent, basing upon the premises of the State University of Daghestan, and the Naryn-Kala historical, architectural and artistic museum.

Partners


UNESCO Chair in Comparative Religious Studies (592), established in 2002 at Saint-Joseph University, (Lebanon)

  • College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Oregon Humanities Center
  • Center Leo Apostel (CLEA), Brussels Free University (Brussels, Belgium)
  • Center for XX Century Studies, Milwaukee University, Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA)
  • The Elijah School for the Study of the Wisdom of the World Religions (Jerusalem, Izrael)

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