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Call for papers: The Eternal Returns of Ulysses: Antiquity and the Middle Ages today

2026-06-17

The philosophical productivity of Ulysses' return to Ithaca lies in the structure of the return itself: what they return to reveals itself differently from what was abandoned. The return does not restore the original, it re-establishes it.

Philosophy of the 20th century can largely be described as a series of such returns to Antiquity and the Middle Ages. M. Heidegger turned to the pre-Socratics and Aristotelian ontology, seeing in them an opportunity to raise the question of being beyond the New European metaphysics. H. Arendt reactualized the Aristotelian distinction between praxis and poesis to analyze the political crisis in modernity. The late M. Foucault discovered in the ancient practices of self-medication an alternative genealogy of subjectivity, irreducible to the Cartesian model. E. Anscombe, A. McIntyre and F. Foote, diagnosing the inconsistency of deontological and consequentialist programs, initiated a return to the Aristotelian ethics of virtue as an independent theoretical paradigm. In the analytical tradition, medieval logic and semantics (theory of assumption, treatises by Occam and Buridan) have been rediscovered as a resource for discussions about reference, modality, and ontological commitment. In each of these cases, reference to the material of Antiquity or the Middle Ages was a condition for posing the problem. The medieval debate about universals and analogies of existence captures the alternatives that structure metaphysical discussions to this day. The Stoic theory of words and the medieval treatises On Meaning represent not only the prehistory of the philosophy of language, but also its full-fledged and in many ways irreducible foundation.

At the same time, a significant part of this problematic field remains inaccessible to the Russian-speaking researcher and reader. The corpus of texts of late Antique Neoplatonism has been translated fragmentally. The Arabic-speaking and Jewish medieval philosophical tradition (Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, Maimonides) is rather nominally present, although without it neither Latin scholasticism of the 13th century nor a number of key subjects of Modern European metaphysics and epistemology are incomprehensible. Medieval Latin logic and the philosophy of language, which had a direct impact on the formation of analytical philosophy, are hardly accessible. Entire problem areas - from medieval philosophy of consciousness, theory of the subject and free will to late Antique aesthetics - remain unexplored. Many primary sources and a significant body of modern research on Ancient and Medieval heritage have not been translated into Russian.

The seventh issue of the magazine "Another One", with the participation of the Renovatio board of authors, is dedicated to this productive return to the traditions of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as to the gaps that this return allows us to discover and recognize.

 

Suggested Topics

  • reception of ancient ontology, epistemology and ethics in philosophy of the XX–XXI centuries;

  • Ancient and Medieval philosophy as a resource for criticism of modern epistemological and ontological paradigms;

  • Managing oneself and others: practices of subjectivation from ancient Parrhesia and medieval confession to modern biopolitics and psychotherapy;

  • the figure of the sage / saint in antiquity and the Middle Ages — and the figure of the intellectual / expert today;

  • Ancient and Medieval literature as a field for modern critical theory;

  • Arabic and Jewish philosophy as a source of Ancient heritage for the Middle Ages;

  • political philosophy: ancient concepts of polytheism, vita activa, freedom and their modern reinterpretation;

  • Ancient and Medieval philosophy of language, logic and semantics and their relation to the analytical tradition;

  • Paleomodern vs. postmodernity: Archaism, tradition and modern aesthetics, poetics, image theory, asceticism and architecture.

Guest editors: Dmitry Bugai, Andrey Nechaev
Executive Editor: Alexandra Ilyina 

 

Submissions

The editorial board welcomes:

  • Research articles (30,000–60,000 characters, including spaces)

  • Reviews and essays

  • Translations of philosophical and historical-scientific texts (with written permission from rights holders). If you require assistance in obtaining such permission, please contact the editorial board.

Submission deadline: October 14, 2026 through the manuscript submission form on the journal's website.

All submissions undergo double-blind peer review. Publications are open access.

Contact

Email: ao.philos.journal@gmail.com
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