Volodymyr Yermolenko
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Volodymyr Yermolenko (Єрмоленко Володимир Анатолійович; born 1980)[1] is a Ukrainian philosopher, essayist, translator, doctor of political studies (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences: EHESS, Paris), candidate of philosophical sciences (Kyiv, 2009), and senior lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is laureate of the Yuri Shevelyov Prize (2018)[2] and of the Petro Mohyla Award (2021).[1]
Biography
Yermolenko was born Kyiv to a family of philosophers. His father, Anatoly Mykolayovych Yermolenko, was director of the Institute of Philosophy. His mother taught philosophy at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He wrote his first philosophical work, "Buddhism and Western Culture", at the age of 15 for the Minor Academy of Sciences[3]
In 2002, he graduated from NaUKMA, and in 2003 from the Central European University (Budapest). In 2011, he defended his doctoral thesis at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). He teaches at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
In 2018, Yermolenko's book Fluid Ideologies was awarded the Yuri Shevelyov Prize and also became the "Book of the Year-2018" in 2 nominations.[4] In 2021, Fluid Ideologies was awarded the Petro Mohyla Prize.[1]
In 2020, together with Tetyana Oharkova, Yermolenko started the Kult podcast, dedicated to defining epochs in the history of culture and cult authors who had a great influence on the development of literature and culture.
Writings
Yermolenko's debut book The Storyteller and Philosopher Walter Benjamin and His Time was published in 2011 by Krytyka, with the support of the Ukrainian Scientific Institute of Harvard University. The monograph is dedicated to the work of Walter Benjamin, a German writer and philosopher, sociologist, historical theorist, aesthetician, art critic and literary critic.[5]
In 2015, a second book was published—a collection of philosophical essays—Distant Relatives. The basis of the texts of the collection became the lectures that Yermolenko gave at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy as part of a course on the philosophy of literature.[6] The book included 12 essays, most of which were published in the pages of the Krytyka magazine.
In 2017, Yermolenko's first novel, Ocean Catcher: The Story of Odysseus, was published by Stary Lev.[7]
In 2018, the book Fluid ideologies. Ideas and Politics in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries was published. It is a detailed and unexpected history of ideas in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Publications
- Оповідач і філософ: Вальтер Беньямін та його час / В. Єрмоленко. — Київ: Критика, 2011. — 280 с.
- Далекі близькі. Есеї з філософії та літератури / В. Єрмоленко. — Львів: Видавництво Старого Лева, 2015. — 304 с.
- Ловець океану: Історія Одіссея / В. Єрмоленко. — Львів: Видавництво Старого Лева, 2017. — 216 с.
- «Плинні ідеології. Ідеї та політика в Європі ХІХ–ХХ століть»/ В.Єрмоленко — К.: ДУХ I ЛIТЕРА, 2018. — 480 с
Reference
- ^ a b c "Володимир Єрмоленко став лауреатом Премії імені Петра Могили ~ PEN Ukraine". web.archive.org. 2021-02-04. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ^ "Премію імені Юрія Шевельова отримав Володимир Єрмоленко". web.archive.org. 2022-02-24. Archived from the original on 2022-02-24. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ^ Прокопишин, Тарас (2020-07-30). "Володимир Єрмоленко". The Ukrainians (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ^ "Книга «Плинні ідеології» ведучого Громадського Володимира Єрмоленка стала «Книжкою року-2018» в 2 номінаціях | Громадське телебачення". hromadske.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ^ "Оповідач і філософ. Вальтер Беньямін та його час". Krytyka (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ^ "Володимир Єрмоленко – біограф думок". Видавництво Старого Лева (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ^ "Ловець океану Володимир Єрмоленко купити у ВСЛ". Видавництво Старого Лева (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2022-10-16.