Philosophers at the Turn of the 21st Century: About the “Philosophical Generation” of the 2000s

The article examines the transformation of philosophy and the features of its teaching during the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet philosophy in Russia. The environment of the Faculty of Philosophy of the State Academic University for the Humanities and the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the late 1990s - early 2000s is analyzed. It is demonstrated that during this period there was a “perestroika” of philosophy, during which the Marxist philosophy of the Soviet period was completely hushed up. The special scientific atmosphere of the sector of the theory of knowledge of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the leadership of V. A. Lektorsky is analyzed. An idea of ​​“philosophical generations” is given, in which the key unifying factor is the presence of “significant others” - teachers who had a significant influence on the formation of a new generation of philosophers.