Sergei Khorouji – In Memoriam

Abstract

I first got to know Sergei Sergeyevich Khorouji through his publications. This happened in the early 1990s, some time after the defense of my dissertation. I have written about different types of historical experiences in Russia and the West. The editor-in-chief of La Revue philosophique de France et de l’étranger, Yvon Bres, who was present at the defense, invited me to write for this edition a review of selected materials on Russian philosophy published in the journal Voprosy Filosofii. New issues at that time regularly came to their editorial office. I agreed, and from that moment, my correspondence acquaintance with Sergei Sergeevich began. His article “The Philosophical Process in Russia as a Meeting of Philosophy and Orthodoxy” [Хоружий 1991] aroused extraordinary interest. Sergei Sergeevich, who studied the features of the historical life being of Russia, presented a model that he considered fundamental for the development of re­search on the intellectual history of Russia. This coincided surprisingly with my own scientific concerns at that time. In a way, I felt like we were meant to meet and collaborate. And that is precisely what happened.