Ukrainian Humanism. Seven Essays on the Culture of a European Nation 12+

📒 This volume gathers some writings presented by the author at international Conferences, Seminars, Symposia, etc., a part of which have appeared (or will appear), in amended form, in scholarly journals, collections of acts and proceed­ings of conferences.Each essay presents the figure of one of the main protagonists and builders of the multifaceted culture of Ukraine: Skovoroda, Ševčenko, Iwaszkiewicz, etc. Although often misunderstood or even imagined, by those who do not know it, as a provincial form of the wider “Russian” culture, the cultural life of Ukraine has always played the original and vital role of a transnational and transcultural hinge between different areas of the Slavic world and of the wider European world. The essays collected here were all composed in the light of this cross-cultural inspiration, this being the key to understanding the his­tory of this country.Giuseppe A. Perri is a member of CIERL, Centre interdisciplinaire d’étude des religions et de la laïcité, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he is involved in Ukrainian studies. He is also a Research Fellow of the Italian Ministry of Education (History of contemporary Italy – Italian philosophy) and author of several books on these topics.Giuseppe A. Perri recently edited (2014) the Italian translation of M. Kocjubyns’kyj’s novel Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and published a brief history (in Italian) of modern Ukraine: La ricca fontana, Sesto Fiorentino (Italy) 2015. He also recently publish...