Doctor of Philosophy, Professor with the assigned duties of the Chair.

Evgeny Sokolov was born in 1961 in Leningrad. Graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov with a degree in Philosophy (1987), postgraduate (PhD) studies at the Department of History and Philosophy of Religion, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University (1992).

PhD thesis “The phenomenon of scientific atheism” (1993).

Labor activity:

1987–1992 - Lecturer of the Department of Philosophy and Scientific Communism of the Leningrad State Institute of Soviet Trade named after V.I. F. Engels (now St. Petersburg University of Trade and Economics).

 * Courses taught: Dialectical materialism, historical materialism, scientific atheism.

1992–1996 - Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor of the Department of Russian and Foreign Culture, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

 * Courses taught: cultural studies, history of world culture, history of arts, history of culture of St. Petersburg, history of religion, ethics.

1993–1995 - Assistant Professor of the Department of Philosophy and History of the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts.

 * Courses taught: philosophy, history of philosophy, aesthetics, history of aesthetics, ethics, biblical history, biblical subjects in world art, logic.

1997–1998 - St. Petersburg Institute of Jewish Studies.

 * Courses taught: cultural studies.

1999-2008 - Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities.

 * Courses taught: philosophy of culture, culture of the 20th century, contemporary art.

 * Special seminars for graduate students of the Academy: “Being and Time” by M. Heidegger, “Being and Nothing” by J.-P. Sartre, “Cartesian Reflections” by E. Husserl, “Truth and Method” by H.-G. Gadamer.

2002–2008 - Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies of the Institute of Humanities and Culture of the Republican Institute for the Humanities.

 * Courses taught: philosophy of culture, topical problems of modern cultural studies, mass culture analytics, culture in a situation of Postmodern.

1996–2016 - Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies (Philosophy of Culture and Cultural Studies, Theoretical and Applied Cultural Studies), Faculty of Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy and Political Science, Institute of Philosophy), St. Petersburg State University. 

 * Courses taught: philosophy, cultural studies, history of cultural studies, cultural history, theoretical and applied in cultural studies, history of Russia in the cultural dimension, philosophy of culture, theory of culture, culture of the twentieth century, culture in a postmodern situation, modern culture, analytics of mass culture, media -culture, cultural and historical centers of the world, auditory culture, modern culture, J. Deleuze “The Logic of Sense”.

2009–2014 - Professor at the Advertising Department of the Northwestern Printing Institute.

 * Courses taught: aesthetics and semiotics of advertising, modern visual communications, theory and practice of contemporary art.

Since 2016 - Professor with the assigned duties of the Head of the Department of Russian Philosophy and Culture at the Institute of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University.

Membership in councils and societies:

• Member of Dissertation Councils

• Member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University,

• Member of the Russian Philosophical Society

Organizer and participant:

• “Laboratories of Metaphysical Research” at the Faculty of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University (since 1995)

• “Center for the Study of Culture”, Faculty of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University (since 1998)

• Member of the editorial board of “Studia culture” - an almanac of the Department of Cultural Studies and the Center for the Study of Culture of the Faculty of Philosophy of St. Petersburg State University

• Member of the editorial board of the journal “Philosophical polylogue” of the Journal of the International Center for the Study of Russian Philosophy, Department of Russian Philosophy and Culture, Institute of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University

• Member of the editorial board of the “Veche. Journal of Russian Philosophy and Culture ". Department of Russian Philosophy and Culture, Institute of Philosophy, St. Petersburg State University

Research interests: philosophy and culture of the twentieth century, Russian philosophy and culture.

Author of over 200 research and research-methodical publications.

ORCID: 0000-0002-9843-8371