Marina Bykova
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), and The Palgrave Hegel Handbook (co-ed. with K. Westphal; Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). She has also published books on Russian intellectual tradition, including Philosophical Thought in Russia in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A Contemporary Views from Russia and Abroad (co-ed. with V.A. Lektorsky; Bloomsbury, 2019) and The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought (co-ed. with M. Forster and L. Steiner; Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). Her new book, Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Guide is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2024. 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).
Education
Dr. Habil Philosophy Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) 1993
Ph.D. Philosophy Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) 1985