»Ryklins Gesprächsführung lässt in jeder Phase erkennen, wie seriös er sich auf die zu verhandelnden Problemzusammenhänge vorbereitet hat und wie kompetent, manchmal auch kritisch er seine jeweiligen Partner zu befragen weiss.« Felix Philipp Ingold, NZZ
writer, essayist and philosopher, is one of the outstanding personalities of Russia‘s intelligentsia. He was born in Leningrad, studied at the Moscow State University (B.A. in Philosophy and Aesthetics) and at the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences (Ph.D. in History of Philosophy) in Moscow. He has been a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences in Moscow and has had several appointments as visiting professor in the U.S. (Cornell University), Great Britain (Bristol University), Canada, Germany and France. Ryklin published numerous volumes on contemporary Russian art and literature and is specialised in the newest trends in philosophy. In Russia he stands for an intensive philosophical dialogue with Western Europe. He is editor and translator of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Theodor W. Adorno. In 1977 he published the first Russian edition of the »Moscow Diary« by Walter Benjamin.