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 20^th 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).

Area(s) of Expertise

Main research interests: the nineteenth century continental philosophy, with a special focus on German idealism and theories of subject and subjectivity.