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"Conversations with Intellectuals" by writer Anatoliy Dnistrovyi is the result of the author's more than twenty-year hobby of communicating with well-known Ukrainian and foreign intellectuals, including philosophers, historians, writers, translators, and artists, on a number of topical issues of transformation of Ukrainian culture, civil society, and the humanitarian field of Ukraine.

Done in the genre of an "interview of ideas", the book shows a full-fledged value and semantic discourse of the entire period of Ukraine's restoration of independence - integration into the world of Western democracies and open society. The interviews were taken in different historical and intellectual contexts, but they can "highlight" each other, pointing to the irreversibility and increasingly rapid movement of Ukrainian society, culture, and intellectual field towards openness, diversity, and dialogue. The conversations constitute a sociological snapshot of their time, as they actualise the issues that were and are on the agenda: strengthening Ukraine's subjectivity (culture, intellectual field, literature), overcoming the postcolonial syndrome, and more intensive integration into the world of democracy and world culture.