The seagull of loneliness in the ocean of international anxiety: insights from Russian existential philosophy
Journal: Studies in East European Thought
Year: 2025

Abstract The article is innovative in the way it brings the history of Russian existentialism into dialogue with current debates in two approaches to world politics: “global International Relations” and “ontological security studies”. Both approaches seek to decentre modern politics, dismantle its hegemonic structures without essentialising new borders, and disentangle the individual Self from the traps of national and imperial ontological insecurities. My article advances these debates by intro