Book chapters

Philosophy of Hope,” in Cosmopolitan Civility: Global-Local Reflections with Fred Dallmayr, ed. Ruth Abbey, 11-27 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020)

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 “Karl-Otto Apel’s Ethics of Dialogue and of Planetary Co-Responsibility,” in Karl-Otto Apel: Vita e Pensiero / Leben und Denken, eds. Michele Borrelli, Francesca Caputo, and Reinhard Hesse, 319-350 (Cosenza, Italy: Pellegrini Editore, 2020).

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“Demenchonok, Edward Vasilevich (Rusia, 1942),” in Diccionario de autobiografías intelectuales: red del pensamiento alternativo, ed. Hugo E. Biagini, 143-149  (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Universidad Nacional de Lanús, 2020).

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“The Quest for Genuine Democracy: A Promise of Democracy to Come,” in Civility, Nonviolent Resistance, and the New Struggle for Social Justice, ed. Amin Asfari, 234-259 (Leiden, Boston:: Brill, Rodopi, 2019) 

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“Intercultural Philosophy and the Quest for Spirituality” in Formation, University and Spirituality, ed. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, 53-70 (Aachen, Germany: Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, 2018)


“Michel Foucault’s Theory of Practices of the Self and the Quest for a New Philosophical Anthropology,” in Peace, Culture, and Violence, ed. Fuat Gursozlu, 218-247  (Leiden, Boston:: Brill, Rodopi, 2018)

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“Preface,” in A World Beyond Global Disorder: The Courage to Hope, eds. Fred Dallmayr and Edward Demenchonok, xi-xv (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017).


“World in Transition: From a Hegemonic Disorder toward a Cosmopolitan Order,” in A World Beyond Global Disorder: The Courage to Hope, eds. Fred Dallmayr and Edward Demenchonok, 183- 270 (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017).


“Hacia la democracia participativo-representativa: el debate en América Latina,” en Diálogo crítico-educativo VIII: constitucionalismos, democracias e educação: o presente e o futuro da América Latina, eds. Jovino Pizzi e Maria das Graças Britto, 97-118 (Pelotas, Brasil: Editora UFPel, 2017).

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“A ética do ‘cuidado de si’ de Foucault como uma prática de liberdade,” in Michel Foucault: Diálogos sobre política, educação e ética, eds. Valdevir Both and Paulo Carbonari (Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil: Editora IFIBE, 2016).

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“Zur Debatte über kulturelle Diversität und Interkulturalität in den USA und Kanada” in Zur Geschichte und Entwicklung der Interkulturellen Philosophie, Hrsg. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, 187-229 (Aachen, Germany: Wissenshaftsverlag Mainz, 2015).


“Practices of the Self: Hesychasm and Synergic Anthropology” in Traditions of Formation, Spirituality and University: Transformation Perspectives or Intercultural Renewal, ed. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, 187-200 (Aachen, Germany: Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, 2015)


“Arturo Andrés Roig y la ética emergente,” El pensamiento alternativo en la Argentina contemporánea, tomo III: Derechos humanos, resistencia, emancipación (1960-2015), eds. Hugo Biagini y Gerardo Oviedo (Argentina: Editorial Biblos, 2015).


Edward Demenchonok (ed), Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, 2016).
“Foreword,” pp. ix-xiv.
Chapter 4 “Bakhtin’s Dialogism and Current Discussions on the Double-Voiced Word and Transculture,” pp. 81-138.
Chapter 12 “Universal Human Rights in a Culturally Diverse World,” in Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity, pp. 291-346.


“Okonchanie Btoroi mirivii viiny i dlinnaia ten’ Hiroshimy” [The End of the Second World War and a Long Shadow of Hiroshima], in Filosofiia voiny i mira (k 70-letiiu Velikoi Pobedy) [Philosophy of War and Peace: Toward the 70th Anniversary of the Great Victory], 241-250 (Moscow: Institute of Philosophy RAS, 2016).


“Filosofía intercultural para la convivencia en un mundo diverso e interrelacionado,” en Diálogo crítico-educativo IV: Mundo da vida, interculturalidade e educacao, eds. Gomercindo Ghiggi e Jovino Pizzi, 211-228 (Pelotas, Brasil: Editora UFPel, 2013).


“Direitos humanos, ética da libertação e a democracia cosmopolita,” en Educação, participação política e direitos humanos, eds. Francisca Rodrigues de Oliveira Pini e Célio Vanderlei Moraes, 63-80 (São Paulo: Instituto Paulo Freire, 2011).

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Edward Demenchonok (ed), Philosophy After Hiroshima (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).

Introduction “From Power Politics to the Ethics of Peace,” pp. 1-42.

Chapter 12 “Human Rights: Imperial Designs versus Cosmopolitan Order,” pp. 331-398.

Chapter 16 “Rethinking Cultural Diversity: Intercultural Discourse and Transculture,” pp. 447-476.


Edward Demenchonok (ed.), Between Global Violence and the Ethics of Peace: Philosophical Perspective (Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Willey-Blackwell Publishing, 2009).

Editorial introduction “Philosophy after Hiroshima: From Power Politics to the Ethics of Nonviolence and Co-Responsibility,” pp. 9-50.

Chapter 1 (as a co-author with Richard Peterson) “Globalization and Violence: The Challenge to Ethics,” pp. 51-76.

Chapter 10 “The Universal concept of Human Rights as a Regulative Principle: Freedom Versus Paternalism,” pp. 273-301.


“From a State of War to Perpetual Peace,” in The Challenges of Globalization: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom, 25-48 (Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2007).


“Intercultural Philosophy,” in The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy, ed. Ioanna Kucuradi, 27-31 (Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, 2007).


“Filosofía de la liberación – filosofía universal,” en Pensamiento crítico latinoamericano, vol. II Conceptos Fundamentales, ed. Ricardo Salas Astrain, 389-398 (Santiago de Chile: UCSH, 2005).


“Democracia y cultura en Rusia,” in Filosofía para la convivencia. Caminos de diálogo norte-sur, eds. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt and Juan Antonio Senent, 145-168 (Sevilla, España: Editorial MAD, 2004).


“Democracy and Culture in Russia,” in Theoria und Praxis der Demokratie in den Kulturen. ed. Raul Fornet-Betancourt, 185-216 (Frankfurt am Main-London: IKO, 2003).


“Intercultural Dialogue and the Controversies of Globalization.” In Interaction and Asymmetry between Cultures in the Context of Globalization, ed. Raul Fornet-Betancourt, 181-204 (Frankfurt am Main-London: IKO, 2002).


“La recepción en Rusia,” in Arturo Ardao y Arturo Andres Roig – Filósofos de la Autenticidad, En Homenaje, eds. Hugo E. Biagini and Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, 26-29 (Aachen: Wissenschaftsverlag Mainz, 2001).


“The Poetics of Dostoevsky and Borges,” in For Borges: A Collection of Critical Essays and Fiction on The Centennial of His Birth (1899-1999), ed. Joseph Tyler, 13-33 (Carrollton, US: State University of West Georgia, 1999)


An essay answering an inquiry in a world-wide survey among 100 philosophers, concerning philosophy at the end of the twentieth century, in Quo vadis, Philosophie? Antworten der Philosophen.  Dokumentation einer Weltumfrage. ed. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, 80-82 (Concordia Monographien. Aachen, Germany: Mainz, 1999:


“Discovering the Other and Finding Ourself,” in Für Enrique Dussel.  Aus Anlas seines 60. Gebürstages, ed. Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, 23-34 (Concordia Reihe Monographien.  Aachen, Germany: Mainz, 1995).


“Ваз Феррейра: поиски ‘новой философии’” [Vaz Ferreira: in search for a ‘new philosophy’], in Из истории философии Латинской Америки [From the History of Philosophy in Latin America], 89-113 (Moscow: Institute of Philosophy RAS, 1988).


“Философия освобождения” [Philosophy of Liberation], in Из истории философии Латинской Америки [From the History of Philosophy in Latin America], 236-266 (Moscow: Institute of Philosophy RAS, 1988).


“Teoria ‘infomatsionnogo obshchestva’”[The theory of ‘informational sociaty’], in Novye tendentsii v zapadnoi sotsial’noi filosofii [New trends in Western social philosophy], ed. Edward Demenchonok 51-77 (Moscow: Institute of Philosophy RAS, 1988).


“Problema kulturno-istoricheskogo tvorchestva v latinoamericanskoi ‘teologii osvobozhdeniia’” [The problem of cultural-historical creativity in Latin American ‘Liberation Theology’], in Katolicheskaia filosofia segodnia [Contemporary catholic philosophy], ed. Edward Demenchonok,89-129 (Moscow: Institute of Philosophy RAS, 1986).


“Intelligentsia i kultura v sotsialno-filosofskoi literatura SShA” [Intellectuals in the social-philosophical literature in the US], in Chelovek i kultura [Human Beings and Culture], 74-93 (Moscow: Institute of Philosophy RAS, 1984).


“Латиноамериканская философия освобождения” [Latin American Philosophy of Liberation] in Problems of Philosophy and Culture in Latin America (Published for the XVII World Congress of Philosophy, Montreal, 1983) (Moscow: Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of USSR, 1983).


“Проблема мира и социального прогресса в технократической идеологии” [The problem of peace and social progress in technocratic ideology], in Проблемы мира и социального прогресса в современной философии [Problems of Peace and of Social Progress in Contemporary Philosophy], ed. Boris T. Grigorian, 209-226 (Moscow: Politizdat, 1983).