Mihajlo Mihajlov: Political Thought between the West and the East

This article is devoted to the identification and characteriza- tion of the contribution of the Serbian intellectual figure Mikhail Mikhailov to the philosophical thought of Eastern Europe. A key feature of his philo- sophical views was anthropocentrism, which opposes both competing ideologies of the Cold War period, suggesting a return to the concept of unity peculiar to the Russian philosophical school in the person of V. Solovyov. The article shows that, in the conditions of political confronta- tion between the communist and capitalist systems, the path of non-align- ment to ideological alliances and preservation of their identity in the era of post-nationalism remained for philosophical thinkers. The relevance of the appeal to Mikhailov’s philosophy is also due to the modern antago- nism of major foreign policy forces in Eastern Europe (NATO and Russia).