Bio

Marina F. Bykova is a professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University and the editor-in-chief of the highly rated international philosophical journal, Studies in East European Thought. Her main area of specialization is the history of the nineteenth century continental philosophy, with a focus on German idealism, especially on Kant, Fichte and Hegel. Her most recent books include The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses and Legacies (Bloomsbury, 2019), Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit: A Critical Guide (ed., Cambridge UP, 2019), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Fichte (ed., Bloomsbury, 2020), The Palgrave Hegel Handbook (co-ed. with K. Westphal; Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Guide (ed., Cambridge UP, 2024). She has also published books on Russian intellectual tradition, including Philosophical Thought in Russia in the Second Half of the 20^th Century: A Contemporary Views from Russia and Abroad (co-ed. with V.A. Lektorsky; Bloomsbury, 2019), The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought (co-ed. with M. Forster and L. Steiner; Palgrave MacMillan, 2021), and At the Vanishing Point in History. Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War (ed., Bloomsbury, 2025). She is currently working on a new monograph, Hegel on Spirit,  which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. Her works have been published in Russian, German and English. She was awarded a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany), European Fellowship (Switzerland), named Lisa Meitner Fellow (Austria), and the Aleksanteri Institute Visiting Fellow (Finland).

Area(s) of Expertise

German Idealism: Fichte: Hegel
Philosophy in Russia

Publications

• Contemporary Russian conservatism: myth, violence, and the rejection of universality , Studies in East European Thought (2026)
• Expulsions and exoduses: Russia’s recurring struggle between philosophy and power , Studies in East European Thought (2025)
• On the Real Content of Hegel’s Philosophy of History: An Attempt at Demystification , History of Philosophy Yearbook (2025)
• Tribute to Jutta Scherrer (1938–2025) , Studies in East European Thought (2025)
• Why Russian thought requires a critical reassessment , Studies in East European Thought (2025)
• Celebrating scholarly excellence: insights from leading scholars , Studies in East European Thought (2024)
• Hegel’s Estimation of Evolution , Idealistic Studies (2024)
• Contemplating the legacy of Russian thought amidst tragedy: an introduction to The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought book symposium , Studies in East European Thought (2023)
• Reflections on Russian Philosophy: on Some Western Stereotypes of Its Perception and Its Place in the History of World Philosophical Thought , Voprosy filosofii (2023)
• Russian philosophy and the question of its exceptional nature , Studies in East European Thought (2023)

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