Vladimir Bibikhin Quotes

Vladimir Bibikhin was a Russian philosopher and translator, the most important interpreter of Heidegger in the Russian language, and a long-time professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. His Russian translation of Sein und Zeit, the result of decades of philosophical labor, is a landmark of post-Soviet philosophical culture, while his lecture courses, published posthumously in dozens of volumes including The World, The Property, and Wittgenstein, developed an austere and erudite philosophy of language, history, and Russian intellectual destiny. The quotes below are attributed to Vladimir Bibikhin, organized by topic.

Vladimir Bibikhin on Knowledge

Attributed to Vladimir Bibikhin:

“To translate Heidegger into Russian is to think Heidegger anew.”
Attributed to Vladimir Bibikhin:

“Russian thought is not a copy of Western thought; it is a sister of it.”
Attributed to Vladimir Bibikhin:

“Philosophy in Russia must always begin again, after every interruption.”

Vladimir Bibikhin on Nature

Attributed to Vladimir Bibikhin:

“Property is the original metaphysical category, before being itself.”
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“The world is what holds open the place in which we appear.”