Diana ProkofyevaDiana Prokofyeva, an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI," defended her thesis "The Dialectic of Estrangement and Engagement: Social-Philosophical Aspects" in February 2012 (Bashki State University, Ufa, Russia). Her research interests are in existentialism, personalism, social philosophy, ethics, and axiology, Marxism, neo-Marxism, and critical theory, philosophy of education, cultural anthropology. She is the author of more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in two books ("The Search for Stability in Chaotic Times: Niccolo Machiavelli" [2018] in 'Catastrophe & Philosophy', edited by D. J. Rosner; "Education for Peace and Conflict Resolution" [2019] in 'War, Peace and Conflict Resolution', edited by Marek J. Celinski) and the author of the monograph 'The Dialectics of Estrangement and Engagement: Philosophical Understanding'. She is also a member of the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought (USA). Read More Read Less