Vladimir Bibikhin Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

He worked as a secretary and assistant for Aleksei Losev, also recording several conversations with the philosopher. These recordings were later collected and published in the book “Aleksei Fedorovich Losev. Sergey Sergeyevich Averintsev.” (2004)

In December 2003 V. Bibikhin took part in a public debate on the case of Yukos, standing on the side of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Bibikhin won the Malyi Booker award for his book of essays “New Renaissance.” He was a laureate of the literary prize “Book of the Year” in philosophic and humanitarian thought, for the book “Ludwig Wittgenstein: Change of Aspect”. He was also awarded the A. Piatigorsky literature prize for the best philosophic work for his “Diaries of Leo Tolstoy” in 2003.

Heidegger’s thought was essential to Bibikhin. In his four-term course “Early Heidegger” (1990s) Bibikhin read Heidegger’s earliest works not as immature and preliminary, but as a commentary to his later writings. The course was mostly devoted, both in lecturers and seminars, to the reading and study of Heidegger’s main work “Being and Time” (1927). Bibikhin’s last seminars at the Institute of Philosophy and his last article were also dedicated to Heidegger.

A list of author’s courses lectured by Bibikhin in 1989–2004:

He lectured in authors courses and held seminars at the Faculty of Philosophy of MSU from 1980 to 2004. He also lectured at St. Philaret’s Christian Institute in Moscow and St. Thomas Institute.

Bibikhin was employed at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences in 1972 and served there until his death. He spent his last years working at the Centre of Methodology and Ethics of Science of the Philosophy of Science and Technology Branch of the Institute. He was a lecturer of Philosophy and member of the faculty of MSU from 1989 onward.

Bibikhin graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University in 1967 and taught language and translation theory at both the MSLU and MGIMO University. At this time, he worked mainly on philosophy and literature and studied ancient languages under Andrey Zaliznyak. He completed his postgraduate study at the faculty of philosophy, MSU in 1977 by defending his candidate’s thesis, entitled: “Semantic Potencies of the Linguistic Sign.” The themes included in his thesis were: 1) interrelations between word and world, 2) word and thought, 3) an approach to word and thought, 4) attempt to think of the ontological foundation of language. These theories were subsequently developed in a seminar called “Inner form of word” and in the courses “Language of Philosophy” and “L. Wittgenstein.”

Vladimir Bibikhin translated texts from Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek, French, English, and German from 1967 onward. He wrote several papers and scientific reviews, as well as commentaries on translations and articles on the theory of translation (the best of them were subsequently included in the book “Word and Event”). Among others, Bibikhin translated the works of Iamblichus, John Amos Comenius, García Lorca, Giuseppe Mazzini, Petrarch, Nicholas of Cusa, St. Gregory Palamas, St. Macarius of Egypt, W. Heisenberg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel, Jacques Ellul, Eugène Ionesco, Antonin Artaud, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Gadamer, Wilhelm Dilthey, Hannah Arendt, and Jacques Derrida. Theological translations were published under the pseudonym V. Veneaminov.

Vladimir Veniaminovich Bibikhin (29 August 1938, Bezhetsk — 12 December 2004, Moscow) was the most prominent Soviet and Russian religious thinker of the New Russia and continued the Russian tradition of early 20th century religious thinking. He was known as a translator, philologist, and philosopher. He is best known for translations of Martin Heidegger, which caused mixed reactions among specialists. He lectured in authors’ courses at the philosophy faculty of Moscow State University. Bibikhin undertook a sufficient number of translations to enable him to formulate his own theory of Europe. This theory consisted in part of a return to the past, and enlivening the most valuable achievements of the past culture.