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)
• Introduction: Nelly Motroshilova’s Philosophical Journey , Philosophy Through Its History. The Intellectual Legacy of Nelly V. Motroshilova (2026)
• Nelly Motroshilova, Piama Gaidenko, and Russia’s Philosophy of the Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Periods , Women Philosophers and Russia (2026)
• Special Issue of SEET: Aleksandr Dugin and Contemporary Russian Conservatism , Studies in East European Thought (2026)
• The Cunning of Reason in Hegel’s Philosophy of History , Philosophy Through Its History. The Intellectual Legacy of Nelly V. Motroshilova (2026)
• At the Vanishing Point in History. Critical Reflections on the Russia-Ukraine War , International PPE Meeting (2025)
• At the Vanishing Point. The Russia’s War in Ukraine , Alexanderi Institute Online Conference (2025)
• Expulsions and exoduses: Russia’s recurring struggle between philosophy and power , Studies in East European Thought (2025)
• Hegel and the Truth of Art , "Sense Is This Wonderful Word..." Hegel and the Aesthetic (2025)
• How Putin’s regim Turns Philosophy into Ideology , Putinism - Post-Soviet Russian Regime Ideology, 11th ICCEES Congress (2025)

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