[4] Alexander Dobrokhotov started his academic career as a historian of Ancient Greek Philosophy and as an interpreter of Parmenides' and Heraclitus’ theories of being.
His studies resulted in several books, one of which, ‘The Category of Being in Classical West-European Philosophy’ (1986), summarises his main ideas.
From 1988 to 1995, Dobrokhotov was the chair of the Department of Cultural History of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
From 1995 to 2009, Alexander Dobrokhotov was the head of the History and Theory of World Culture Department at the Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University.
Many prominent Soviet and Russian scholars like Viacheslav Ivanov, Sergei Sergejewitsch Awerinzew, Aron Gurevich, Mikhail Gasparov, Georgii Knabe, Yeleazar Meletinsky, Vladimir Romanov, Tatiana Vasilieva, Nina Braginskaia, Vladimir Bibikhin have worked there.
[5] From 1995 to 2015, Alexander Dobrokhotov taught at the Graduate School of European Cultures (VSHEK) which is an international training and research centre at Russian State University for the Humanities (VSHEK was established in April 2007 and replaced the Institute of European Cultures).
[6] Today, Alexander Dobrokhotov is a leading Russian philosopher of culture and prominent scholar in culturology.
[7] Alexander Dobrokhotov is a member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Studies in East European Thought.
In 2023, the Dutch philosopher Evert van der Zweerde wrote an article about Alexander Dobrokhotov: ‘Beyond the Divide.
[10] In late 1980s and early 1990s, the academic disciplinary landscape on the territory of the former Soviet Union underwent significant changes.
Alexander Dobrokhotov further argues that Culture is not a mechanism of human adaptation to the natural environment, but is rather an ontological wholeness, with its own aim setting, or, in his terms, ‘teleologism’.
He reveals the underlying isomorphism in works by Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Pablo Picasso; in quantum mechanics and avant-garde in art; in the 18th-century philosophy of mind and the novel; in theology and Alfred Hitchcock’s films.