A publishing house for free philosophical thought
Since 1930. Now in Prague.
A century of intellectual tradition
In 1930, a publishing house for social and economic literature was established in Moscow - Sotsekgiz. In 1963, it took the name by which millions of readers would come to know it: Mysl - Thought.
For decades, Mysl stood as one of the foremost intellectual publishers in the Russian-speaking world. Under its imprint, the series Philosophical Heritage appeared in 133 volumes, tracing the entire arc of world philosophical thought from the Vedas and Aristotle to Nietzsche and Losev. The companion series Thinkers of the Past brought the great philosophers within reach of the general reader across 74 volumes. It was here, too, that the works of Nobel laureates in economics - Hayek, Schelling, Ostrom, Myrdal - first appeared in Russian translation.
Several generations of philosophers, historians, and scholars came of age with these books. The dark brown spines bearing the gold-embossed FN triangles remain a familiar sight on the shelves of every serious philosophical library.
In 2004, the publishing house ceased operations. The tradition, however, did not.
Renewal
Mysl is a publishing house for those who think in Russian - and think freely.
Mysl is being renewed in Prague - a city with a deep and long-standing connection to Russian intellectual exile. In the 1920s, under the programme known as the Russian Action, dozens of Russian philosophers and scholars found refuge here. The Prague Linguistic Circle worked here. Here, the life of the mind was never a privilege - it was simply the expected condition.
We continue the work begun nearly a century ago: publishing books that shape how people think. Philosophy, the history of ideas, political thought, the humanities - everything that helps a person understand the world and their place within it.
Our work
Philosophy and the history of ideas
Translation
Intellectual community
People
Artemy Magun
Artemy Magun — is a philosopher, political theorist, and specialist in dialectics. PhD in Political Science (University of Michigan) and PhD in Philosophy (University of Strasbourg). Co-founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Global Reconstitution (IGRec). Editor-in-chief of the academic journal Stasis. Member of the creative platform Chto Delat. Author of Negative Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2013), Temptation of Non-Being (Bloomsbury, 2024), Unity and Solitude (NLO, 2011), and Democracy, or The Demon and The Hegemon (2016). Published in Telos, New German Critique, Rethinking Marxism, and History of Political Thought. Laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize (2020). Developed philosophy courses for the Arzamas educational platform.
Mikhail Minakov
Mikhail Minakov — is a philosopher, political scholar, and historian of modernity. Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy (Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Senior Advisor at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2017-2025). Visiting Professor at the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt an der Oder). Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (2001-2018). Chairman of the Kant Society in Ukraine (2013-2018). Editor-in-chief of the Ideology and Politics Journal. Author of The Post-Soviet Human (ibidem, 2024), Development and Dystopia (Columbia University Press, 2018), Dialectics of Modernity in Eastern Europe (2020), and History of Experience (2019). Lives in Milan.
Eugene Golub
Eugene Golub — is Director and co-founder of Mysl z.s. (Prague), founder of the educational projects for adults Otium.Academy and Otium.Travel. Over 25 years of experience in senior management positions at international companies across Central and Eastern Europe. Founded Otium Academy in 2017 in Kyiv as a space for philosophical education - lectures, seminars, and debates on philosophy, the history of ideas, and critical thinking; after a forced interruption, relaunched the project in Prague in 2025. Co-hosts the podcast In Search of Meaning together with political philosopher Pavel Shchelin. Lives in Prague.
The original Moscow-based Mysl publishing house ceased to exist in 2004. The trademark rights have been acquired, and today the publishing house is being revived as a project of Mysl z.s. (Czech Republic). We continue what our predecessors began - the publication of serious philosophical and humanistic literature in the Russian language.
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Account number: 6707775309/0800
IBAN: CZ73 0800 0000 0067 0777 5309
Bank: Česká spořitelna, a.s.
BIC/SWIFT: GIBACZPX
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