Svasyan, Karen Araevich

In 1954-1965 he studied at a secondary school in Yerevan.

From 1965 to 1970 he studied philosophy, as well as English and French philology at the philological faculty of Yerevan State University .

From 1971 to 1993 he was a junior, and then a senior and leading researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Law, Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.

In 1978 he became a candidate of philosophical sciences ("The Aesthetic Essence of A. Bergson's Intuitive Philosophy"), in 1981 - a doctor of philosophical sciences ("The Problem of Symbol in Modern Philosophy") .

In 1985 he became a professor at Yerevan University .

In 1997, he was a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck (summer semester) at the faculties of philosophy and Slavic studies (courses in the theory of cognition, the theory of symbol, and literary translation).

From 1993 to the present he lives in Basel , Switzerland , as a freelance writer and associate professor. He gives lectures in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France and Russia. He writes mainly in Russian and German.

For the first time he became widely known as the compiler, editor and one of the translators of the two-volume collected works of F. Nietzsche , published in Russia for the first time after the revolution (M., 1990). K. A. Svasyan is the author of the introductory article, notes and comments on this publication. Author of the book “The Formation of European Science” (Yerevan, 1990). Translator and commentator on O. Spengler ’s book “ Sunset in Europe. Essays on the morphology of world history ”(vol. 1. M., 1993, vol. 2. M., 1998). Translator of “ Sonnets to Orpheus ” R. M. Rilke .

• Humboldt Prize Laureate (1994).
• First place in the competition of philosophical works of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2009).

The philosophical views of K. A. Svasyan are characterized by their correlation with the history of philosophy and culture, on the one hand, and with philosophical and anthropological problems, on the other. In this case, the history of philosophy itself is considered as the history of the fate of consciousness, but not in the Hegelian-phenomenological aspect of consciousness in general, but rather in the sense of some consistent and higher, spiritual, level of the continued natural history of Haeckel’s creation. Understood as such, philosophy, from the pre-Socratics and Plato to Hartmann , Stirner and Nietzsche , does not aim at understanding the world, but - through the latter - the self-revelation and self-development of the human individuality. If the crown of creation in the sense of evolutionary theory is man as a biological individual, then the question inevitably arises of the crown of creation in man as such. This question: what in man himself culminates the human proper, how does the human proper culminate the purely natural? - indicates only thinking. Thinking is (spiritually) higher in man, just as (biological) man is higher in nature. The history of philosophy adjoins in this sense the history of creation and continues it. This means: if evolutionary theory (thematically) belongs to the history of philosophy, it is only because the history of philosophy, in turn, belongs (ontologically) to evolution as its highest and most perfect stage. Continued in this way and deduced into spiritual anthropogeny: man as the highest member of nature, thinking as the highest member of man, the last question is decisive, where the anthropogenesis of Haeckel’s natural history, which has grown into the pneumogenesis of the history of philosophy as such, is corrected and potentiated by Max Stirner’s absolute individualism: If thinking is the highest in a person, then the path of evolution after Stirner, for which a person is either an empty word, or a specific name, will focus on the question: Whose thinking? The answer is immanent in solving the central problem of the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Sartre : the thinking of a philosopher who would be able to overcome the hiatus between thinking and being, between essence and existence, between what he thinks and what he is. The search for such a philosopher, defining the whole range of philosophical interests of K. A. Svasyan, led him, after long wanderings around the historical and philosophical space (the main stages: Heraclitus , Plato , Aristotle , Origen , Neoplatonism , Abelard , Thomas , Descartes , Leibniz , Kant , German idealism , Stirner , Hartmann , Nietzsche , Husserl ), to the worldview of Rudolf Steiner , in which his "philosophical" fate coincided with his "private" fate. In Russian, this problem has found its most exaggerated expression in the article by K. A. Svasyan “Anthroposophy” , which he wrote for the Philosophical Encyclopedia. ^[one]

in Russian

• The aesthetic essence of A. Bergson's intuitive philosophy . - Yerevan, ed. AN ArmSSR, 1978.
• The problem of symbol in modern philosophy . - Yerevan, ed. Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR 1981. Reprint: M .: Academic project , 2010. - ISBN 978-5-8291-1227-1 .
• The voices of silence. Rilke , Valerie, Blok, Charents, Narekatsi, Goethe . - Yerevan, 1984.
• Phenomenological knowledge. Propaedeutics and criticism . - Yerevan, published by the Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR, 1987. Reprint: M .: Academic project , 2010. - ISBN 978-5-8291-1229-5 .
• Goethe's philosophical worldview . - Yerevan, ed. Academy of Sciences of the ArmSSR, 1983. 2nd ed .: M., 2001. 4th ed .: Evidentis.— M., 2001. ISBN 5-94610-006-8
• Man as a creator and creator of culture // VF. - No. 6. - 1987.
• The fate of mathematics in the history of cognition of the New time // VF. - No. 12. - 1989.
• Philosophy of symbolic forms of E. Cassirer. Critical analysis . - Yerevan, ed. AN SSSR, 1989. Reprint: M .: Academic project , 2010. - ISBN 978-5-8291-1263-9 .
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe . - M., Thought, 1989. - ( Thinkers of the Past ).
• Friedrich Nietzsche: The Martyr of Knowledge // Friedrich Nietzsche. Op. in 2 t. T. 1. - M., 1990 (Introductory article) .
• Oswald Spengler and his Requiem for the West // Oswald Spengler: Sunset of Europe. Essays on the morphology of world history. T.1. - M., 1993 (Introductory article) .
• Nietzsche, or how to become God. Two variations on one fate . - Yerevan, 1999.
• The riddle of the history of philosophy // Russian Journal, 2002
• The formation of European science . - Yerevan, 1990. 2nd ed .: Evidentis - M., 2002. ISBN 5-94610-009-2
• Europe. Two obituaries . - M., 2003. ISBN 5-94610-020-3
• On the end of the history of philosophy , 2005 .
• Identification , Evidentis. - M., 2006. ISBN 5-94610-040-8
• A man in a maze of identities , Evidentis. - M., 2009. ISBN 5-94610-045-9
• R.M. Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus translated by K.A. Svasyana , Separate edition. Evidentis, AVT Center. - M., 2012. ISBN 5-94610-050-5
• ... but another night , Evidentis, AVT Center. - M., 2013. ISBN 978-5-94610-051-9
• Essay on Philosophy in Self-Exposure, Institute for General Humanitarian Research. - M., 2015. ISBN 978-5-88230-346-3

in German

• Europa. Zwei Abgesänge. EM Edition Morel, Dornach 2018, ISBN 978-3906891040
• Rudolf Steiner: Eine Einführung . EM Edition Morel, Dornach 2017, ISBN 978-3906891033

• Geschichte der Philosophie in karmischer Perspektive: Ein Nachruf auf das Denken von Plato bis Stirner . Verlag für Anthroposophie, Dornach 2016, ISBN 978-3906891019

• Geträumt oder gewollt? Zwölf Skizzen über die Schweiz . Verlag für Anthroposophie, Dornach 2014, ISBN 978-3-03769-050-5
• Zur Geschichte der Zukunft. Drei Essays . Verlag für Anthroposophie, Dornach 2009, ISBN 978-3-03769-019-2
• Aufgearbeitete Anthroposophie. Eine Geisterfahrt , Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2007; 2.erweiterte Aufl .: Dornach 2008, ISBN 978-3-7235-1324-8
• Rudolf Steiner. Ein Kommender , Verlag am Goetheanum, 2. erg. Aufl. Dornach 2017, ISBN 3-7235-1259-3
• Anthroposophische Heilpädagogik. Zur Geschichte eines Neuanfangs , Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2004, ISBN 3-7235-1206-2
• (als Herausgeber) Louis MI Werbeck: Die Gegner Rudolf Steiners und der Anthroposophie, durch sich selbst widerlegt , Forum für Geisteswissenschaft, Wallisellen 2003.
• Was ist Anthroposophie? , Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2001, ISBN 3-7235-1115-5 Textauszug ( PDF )
• Das Schicksal heisst: Goethe , Rudolf Geering Verlag, Dornach 1999, ISBN 3-7235-1048-5
• (als Herausgeber) Karl Ballmer: Umrisse einer Christologie der Geisteswissenschaft. Texte und Briefe , Rudolf Geering Verlag, Dornach 1999, ISBN 3-7235-1072-8
• Der Untergang eines Abendländers. Oswald Spengler und sein Requiem auf Europa , Heinrich Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932458-08-7
• (als Herausgeber) Max Stirner : Das unwahre Prinzip unserer Erziehung . Einleitung von Willy Storrer, Nachwort von Karen Swassjan, Rudolf Geering Verlag, Dornach 1997, ISBN 3-7235-0983-5
• Urphänomene II. Die Zerstörung der Kultur: 1. Streiflichter / 2. Lichtblicke , 2 Bände, Rudolf Geering Verlag, Dornach 1996/1998, ISBN 3-7235-0938-X / ISBN 3-7235-0942-8
• Urphänomene I. Die Überwindung der Philosophie / Die Umwandlung der Theosophie / Die Erschaffung der Anthroposophie , 3 Bände, Rudolf Geering Verlag, Dornach 1995, ISBN 3-7235-0975-4
• Nietzsche - Versuch einer Gottwerdung. Zwei Variationen über ein Schicksal , Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1994, ISBN 3-7235-0767-0
• Die Karl-Ballmer-Probe . Mit zwei Aufsätzen von Karl Ballmer (Co-Autor), Edition LGC , Siegen / Sancey le Grand 1994, ISBN 3-930964-80-5
• Das Abendmahl des Menschen. Zum hundertsten Geburtstag der ‚Philosophie der Freiheit ' , Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1993, ISBN 3-7235-0710-7
• Unterwegs nach Damaskus. Zur geistigen Situation zwischen Ost und West , Verlag Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-87838-967-1

in English

• The Ultimate Communion of Mankind: A Celebration of Rudolf Steiner's Book "The Philosophy of Freedom" , ISBN 0-904693-82-1

• Forum für Geisteswissenschaft website in German dedicated to K. A. Svasyan
• www.rvb.ru/swassjan Russian virtual library with a selection of works by K. A. Svasyan
• "Literary channel" with a selection of works by K. A. Svasyan
• Interview with the online journal Expert Online 2.0
• “Orientation to the West is orientation to insanity”, the newspaper “New time”, September 2, 2000 (unavailable link from 05/21/2013 [2266 days] - history , copy )
• Interview with the theoretical journal "Credo New", N4, 2005 (unavailable link from 05/21/2013 [2266 days] - history , copy )
• Online interview for Open Armenia Forum, August 4, 2005 (unavailable link from 05/21/2013 [2266 days] - history , copy )
• Interview with Nietzsche.ru (inaccessible link from 05/21/2013 [2266 days] - history , copy )
• “ Faust (posthumous) ” - an article in the magazine “Session”
• Collection of books by K.A.Svasyan, works of the philosopher and translations