Politics and Transculture in the Political and Philosophical Works of Mikhail Epstein

Abstract

This article focuses on the analysis of political and philosophical ideas of M.N. Epstein, particularly his concept of “transculture”. The article examines such topics as criticism of totalitarian culture in the USSR, the “critical universality”, critique of multiculturalism, Russian regionalism, criticism of neo-Marxist understanding of the intellectual, self-identity of the Russian Diaspora in the U.S.A. etc. The article is based on texts of M.N.Epstein and an interview taken by the author in 2011.