Volodymyr Yermolenko
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Volodymyr Yermolenko | |
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| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
Volodymyr Yermolenko (Володимир Анатолійович Єрмоленко; born 1980)[1] is a Ukrainian philosopher, essayist, translator, doctor of political studies (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences: EHESS, Paris), candidate of philosophical sciences (Kyiv, 2009), and senior lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is laureate of the Yurii Sheveliov Prize (2018)[2] and of the Petro Mohyla Award (2021).[1]
Yermolenko was born Kyiv to a family of philosophers. His father, Anatolii Yermolenko, was director of the Institute of Philosophy. His mother taught philosophy at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. He wrote his first philosophical work, "Buddhism and Western Culture", at the age of 15 for the Minor Academy of Sciences[3]
In 2002, he graduated from NaUKMA, and in 2003 from the Central European University (Budapest). In 2011, he defended his doctoral thesis at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). He teaches at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
In 2020, together with Tetiana Oharkova, Yermolenko started the Kult podcast, dedicated to defining epochs in the history of culture and cult authors who had a great influence on the development of literature and culture.
In December 2024, he started the philosophical podcast Thinking in Dark Times.
