Mikhail Epstein

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Full Name	Mikhail Epstein
Occupation	Philosopher
Date Of Birth	Apr 21, 1950(1950-04-21)
Age	74
Birthplace	Moscow
Country	Russia
Horoscope	Aries

Mikhail Epstein Biography

Mikhail Epstein is one of the most popular and richest Philosopher who was born on April 21, 1950 in Moscow, Russia. Mikhail Naumovich Epstein, also transliterated Epshtein, Russian: Mikhail Naumovich Epshtein, was born 21 April 1950. He is the Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of Cultural Theory, Russian Literature, Emory University in Atlanta, USA. In 1990, he moved to Atlanta, USA from Moscow (USSR). From 2012 to 2015, he was a professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University in the UK. He was also the founder and director of the Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University.

His major ongoing project is “On the Future of the Humanities”: Paradigmatic Shifts, Emerging Concepts. He was an inaugural senior fellow at Emory University (2002-03), and a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, England (2011). He was a visiting professor at Wesleyan University (1990), and University of Oregon at Eugene (2002).

His areas of specialization include postmodernism, cultural and literary theory; the history of Russian literature and intellectual history; contemporary philosophical and religious thought, and ideas and electronic media. Epstein is also an expert on Russian philosophy of the 19th and 20th centuries and on thinkers like Nikolai Berdyaev. He writes essays on cultural, social, ethical and international issues.

Mikhail Epstein won numerous international and national prizes including the Andrei Bely Prize (St. Petersburg 1991); The Social Innovations Awards 1995 from the Institute for Social Inventions in London for the electronic Bank of New Ideas; The International Essay Contest, set up by Lettre International, Weimar- Cultural City of Europe 1999; as well as the Liberty Prize, which was awarded for his outstanding contributions to the development of Russian- American cultural links (New York 2000).

Mikhail Epstein Net Worth

Mikhail Epstein is one of the richest Philosopher from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mikhail Epstein 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Epstein was born in Moscow (USSR) and is of Jewish descent. In 1972, he graduated from Moscow State University’s Philological Faculty. Since 1978, he has been a member of Soviet Writers Union. He is also the founder and director of Image and Thought (1986-1988) and Laboratory of Contemporary Culture (Moscow (1988-1989).

In 1990, he moved to the United States and was a fellow at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington D.C.), 1990-1991. In 1990, he joined Emory University’s faculty. He was awarded a grant by the National Council for Soviet, East European Research in 1992 to study the history of Russian thought during the Soviet period. He wrote InteLnet, 1995 (Intellectual network), and many other inter-disciplinary web sites in the humanities.

In his exploration of contemporary spirituality, Epstein focuses on the concept of “post-atheism,” or “minimal [or poor] religion”, discussed in particular in his correspondence with the Protestant thinker Thomas Altizer and extensively examined in Charles Taylor’s book “The Secular Age” (2007) that refers to Epstein’s work.

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Mikhail Ranked on the list of most popular Philosopher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Mikhail Epstein celebrates birthday on April 21 of every year.