Abstract
This is the text of an interview with Professor, DSc in Philosophy Nelli Motroshilova (1934–2021)—the chief researcher of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Head of the Department of Historical and Philosophical Studies of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences for more than 25 years, the largest Russian author of works on phenomenology; she stood at the origins of the study of phenomenology in Russia. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that for several generations of philosophers N. Motroshilova personified the tradition of the national study of the modern Western philosophy. Being a classic of the national history of philosophy, Nelli Motroshilova shared the main positions of phenomenological philosophy, which allowed her to make a significant contribution to the study of its theoretical problems, a contribution recognized not only in Russia, but also abroad. The interview was recorded in October 2014. N. Motroshilova talks about the genesis of her philosophical views, in particular, about her path to phenomenology. Her recollections of the phenomenological community in Moscow, Leningrad, and Riga are of considerable interest in the context of the historiography of Soviet philosophy. It should be noted that many of N. Motroshilova’s studies on phenomenology and the history of philosophy have had a decisive influence on the formation of today’s philosophical community in Russia. The interview is published in the 2014 version without editing.
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