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Mikhail Epstein

Mikhail Epstein was born in Moscow and moved to the USA in 1990.  He has been a professor at Emory University since 1991 and is the author of 29 books and more than 600 articles and essays, many of which are translated into 16 languages. His books include After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture (1995),Transcultural Experiments: Russian and American Models of Creative Communication(with E. Berry, 1999), The Philosophy of the Possible (2001), and Mapping Blank Spaces: On the Future of the Humanities (2004). Epstein has won national and international prizes, including the Andrei Bely prize (1991); The Social Innovations Award 1995 from the Institute for Social Inventions for his electronic Bank of New Ideas; the International Essay Contest set up byLettre International and Weimar - Cultural City of Europe 1999; and the Liberty Prize, awarded for his outstanding contribution in the development of Russian-American cultural connections (2000).

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