Eugene V. AFONASIN Dr. Phil. in History of Philosophy from Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), M. A. in Medieval Studies from Central European University, Professor, Lecturer in Philosophy, Western Legal Tradition and Roman Law at Novosibirsk State University, Russia, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences

Address for Correspondence: 630090, Novosibirsk, 90,
Pirogova Street, 2, Novosibirsk University,
Department of Philosophy, Russia
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E-mail:afonasin@philos.nsu.ru
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History of Philosophy and Law. Resources and Study Materials
Siberian Interdisciplinary Society for Humanities Page
Clement of Alexandria. The Stromateis in a Russian Translation

Educated at Novosibirsk State University, Russia, the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, and Christ Church, University of Oxford, England. 1997-1998 Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Classical Tradition (Boston University). 2001 – Visiting (Fulbright) Senior Scholar, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC

Degrees and research qualifications: M. Sc. (Diplom) in Physics (1991, Novosibirsk), M.A. (Diplom) in Philosophy (Novosibirsk, 1991), Master of Arts in Medieval Studies (Budapest - New York, 1995), Certificate of Studies (Oxford, 1996), Kandidat filosofskich nauk (Institute of Philosophy of Russian  Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1997), Doctor filosofskich nauk (St. Petersburg State University, 2003 

Research Interests: Classics, History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy, Byzantine and Slavonic Studies; Clement of Alexandria, Gnosticism; Dionysius the Areopagite; - Vl. Solovyov; Russian Moral Philosophy; - Roman Law and Western Legal Tradition; - History and Methodology of Science; Cosmology, Philosophy of Time and Space; - Literary and textual Criticism.

The Philosophy of Clement of Alexandria. Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk University Press, 1997. 
Clement of Alexandria. The Stromateis: a translation from the Greek into Russian, philosophical and philological commentary, indices by E.V. Afonasin. In Russian. St. Petersburg, 2003. Vols. 1-3.
Valentinus Gnosticus and his School: Fragments of Valentinus and Ancient Testimonia about his school and teaching. Greek text, a Russian translation and commentary by E.V. Afonasin. St. Petersburg: Aletheia, 2001. -- 270 p. ("The Library of Ancient Christianity" Series).

ACCUMULATION OF DATA AND THE TECHNIQUES OF QUOTATION
IN LATE ANTIQUITY

The project is intended to be a contribution to the problem of developing of precise and formal methods in textual analysis. Namely, it is focused on (1) investigation of the ways how knowledge was accumulated and stored in Antiquity and (2) the precise analysis of various sources from the Late Antiquity, which could reveal their inner structure and clarify their genesis. The study aims to show why quotations were used, what function they had accomplish for an author, whether they added something to the argument (and when this is the case, to which extent) or if they were primarily embellishments, and what effect they had on the reader, etc. The primarily sources include, but not restricted to, Aulus Gellius, Stobaeus, Plutarch, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Philo of Alexandria, Clement of Alexandria, etc. The texts selected basically meet two criteria. Firstly, they are close enough to each other in terms of their content and the time of composition, and, secondly, sufficiently various in their province and genre. The selection makes it possible to draw quite a diverse, but still a clearly coherent picture which admits reasonable generalization. The research include the followings activities. Firstly, the author of the project embarked on the study of the aforementioned sources in order to get to a better insights of their arguments by means of the precise analysis of their structure. Secondly, the author spent some time studying resent literature on the subject in question, including relevant publication dedicated to the problem of computer aided text reconstruction and databases development. This study will allow the author in near future to acquire new computer based methods of textual and data analysis. Thirdly, various indices were prepared as primarily tools for analyzing the texts. This work is still in progress. All this material will be incorporated in the final monograph on the subject which is planned as a final result, if the project is successful. Finally, the author launched an additional project of preparing of electronic versions of his papers and developing of electronic versions of the indices he is working upon now. This work will be continued and could in future result in developing of on-line tools useful for textual analysis.

LEGAL STUDIES:
Philosophy of Law and the history of Western Legal Tradition

The project is intended to explore the philosophic foundations of Western legal tradition. The texts studied include Roman classical jurists and the authors from Late Antiquity who address the legal issues. The studies are focused on the structure of legal logical argumentation, the philosophical influences on the Classical legal works, the legal condition circumstances in which the Christians were placed in Roman Empire, the Christian authors on Roman law, etc.

Awards and Scholarships

1993 Price of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science.
1994-1995, 1996-1998, 1999-2000 Research grants of Russian Foundation for Humanities, Moscow.
1995-1996 Soros/ Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholarship, Oxford.
1997-1998 Junior Faculty Development Program Scholarship, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, DC.
1998-1999 Individual Research Support Scheme Grant, Open Society Institute, Prague.
1999-2001 Russian Foundation for Basic Research Grant.

2001Fulbright Senior Research Program. Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC

Participation in Conferences (selected)

• 2001, August, The Philosophy of Communication. The 13th International Conference on Greek Philosophy, Rhodes, Greece.
• 2000, September, Byzantine Theology and Traditions of Religious and Philosophical Thought in Russia, International Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2000, August, The Quest for Truth: Greek Philosophy and Epistemology. The 12th International Conference on Greek Philosophy, Samos, Greece.
• 1999, September, Novosibirsk State University 40th Anniversary Conference, Novosibirsk, Russia.
• 1998, August, XX World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, MA.
• 1997, December, The American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
• 1996, May, Informing the Passion, Centre for Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick, England.
• 1995, August, International School Greek and Latin Documents: Comparative Exploration, Centre for Scientific Culture of Ettore Majorana, Erice, Italy.
• 1993, August, School Philosophical Hermeneutics, Pyatigorsk, Russia.
• 1993, November, International Conference Life, Death, Immortality, Museum of the History of Religion, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Publications (selected)

• The Gnostic Theory of Time (Two Fragments of Valentines in the Stromata IV of Clement of Alexandria), in: Meterialy nauchnoy konferentsii: "Zhizn', smert', bessertie" [Proceedings of International Conference "Life, Death, Immortality"]. St Petersburg: Museum of the History of Religion, 1993, pp. 51-53 (in Russian).
• ‘The 'Ninth Letter' of  Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in Church  Slavonic Translation: A Study in Symbolic Theology (a summary of the thesis)’,  Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, 1994-1995. Budapest: Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies, 1996, pp.40-41.
• AGNOSTOS THEOS: The Theory of Transcendent God in the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria: Stromata V, chapters 11-13, a translation from Greek and commentary, Istoriko-filosofskij ezhegodnik - 95 [History of Philosophy Yearbook, 95],  Moscow, 1996, pp. 247-268 (in Russian).
• The Place of Symbolism in the Theory of the True Gnosis in the 'Stromateis' of Clement of Alexandria (a summary of doctoral dissertation). Moscow: Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Science, 1997. – 26 p. (in Russian).
• Filosofiya Klimenta Alexandrijskogo [The Philosophy of Clement of Alexandria] Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk University Press, 1997. – 126 p. (in Russian).
• HO KLEMES PYTHAGORIZEI : A Christian Rethinking the Pythagorean Tradition: Clement of Alexandria and the Neopythagoreans. Part One: Pythagorean Symbolism and the Philosophic Paideia in the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria, Abstracts of the XX World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, MA, 1998, p. 63.
• “Some notes concerning the problem of secular and religious education of the Slavs: a note about the language of the Church Slavonic translation of the Corpus of writings, ascribed to the name of Dionysius the Areopagite”, Materialy mezhdunarodnoj konferentsii “Vypusknik NGU i nauchno-texnicheskij progress” [Proceedings of Novosibirsk State University 40th Anniversary Conference], Novosibirsk, 1999. Part 2, p. 63-64.
• "Domitius Ulpianus on substantia", Materialy ezhegodnoj konferentsii yuridicheskogo fakulteta Sibirskoj kommertseskoj akademii [Proceedings of Annual conference of the department of Law of Siberian Academy of Commerce] Novosibirsk, 1999. Part 2, p. 124-126 (in Russian).
• Valentinus Gnosticus. Fragmenta, Ezhegodnik filosofskogo faculteta NGU [Yearbook of Philosophy Department of Novosibirsk State University] Novosibirsk, 1999 (in Russian), p. 39-99.
• Roman Law. A textbook. Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk University Press, 1999 (in Russian). - 70 p.
• Gnosticism vtorogo veka: antichnye svidetel'stva [The second century Gnosticism: Ancient evidences] Part 1. Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk University Press, 1999. – 30 p. (in Russian).
• “HO KLEMES PYTHAGORIZEI: A Christian Rethinking the Pythagorean Tradition”, Gumaniratnye nauki v Sibiri [Siberian Journal of Humanities] 1 (2000) p. 36-41 (in Russian).
• “Clement’s Gnoseology: Clement of Alexandria and the Neopythagoreans”, The Quest for Truth: Greek Philosophy and Epistemology. The 12th International Conference on Greek Philosophy, Samos, Greece: Ionia Publications, 2000, p. 63-64.
• ‘Metaphysics of Hierarchy. Nomos and Thesmos in the Corpus Dionysiacum’, Verbum III. Yearbook of the Center of Studies of Medieval Culture at St Petersburg State University. St Petersburg, 2000, p. 9-11.
• Clement of Alexandria. The Stromateis, a translation into Russian,  introduction, notes and index by E. Afonasin. St. Petersburg, 2003. Vols. 1-3.
• Valentinus Gnosticus and His School. Fragments and Testimonia, a translation into Russian,  introduction, notes and index by E. Afonasin. St. Petersburg: Aletheia, 2001. – 270 p.
• "Notes on the Methods of Quotation in Late Antiquity: Literary Style of the Stromateis by Clement of Alexandria", Gumaniratnye nauki v Sibiri [Siberian Journal of Humanities] 1 (2001) p. 36-41 (in Russian).