This volume gathers some writings presented by the author at international Conferences, Seminars, Symposia, etc., a part of which have appeared (or will appear), in amended form, in scholarly journals, collections of acts and proceed-ings of conferences.
Each essay presents the figure of one of the main protagonists and builders of the multifaceted culture of Ukraine: Skovoroda, Sevčenko, Iwaszkiewicz, etc. Although often misunderstood or even imagined, by those who do not know it, as a provincial form of the wider "Russian" culture, the cultural life of Ukraine has always played the original and vital role of a transnational and transcultural hinge between different areas of the Slavic world and of the wider European world. The essays collected here were all composed in the light of this cross-cultural inspiration, this being the key to understanding the his-tory of this country.
Giuseppe A. Perriis a member of CIERL, Centre interdisciplinaire d' tude des religions et de la la cit , Universit Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he is involved in Ukrainian studies. He is also a Research Fellow of the Italian Ministry of Education (History of contemporary Italy - Italian philosophy) and author of several books on these topics.
Giuseppe A. Perri recently edited (2014) the Italian translation of M. Kocjubyns'kyj's novel Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and published a brief history (in Italian) of modern Ukraine: La ricca fontana, Sesto Fiorentino (Italy) 2015. He also recently published articles in journals such as: Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, History of Communism in Europe, Slovo, La Revue Nouvelle, Borders, Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali.