Vladislav Pedder
Born on July 7, 1998, in Omsk, Russia. Has Estonian roots. Graduated from Moscow International University in 2026 with a degree in Economics. Collaborates with Totenburg publishing house.
In 2024–2026, prepared and released in Russian a body of works by the Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe — On the Tragic, I Choose Truth (jointly with A. Næss and H. Tønnessen), an interview, and related articles. This marked the first print edition of these works. Translated David Benatar’s The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions, Emil Cioran’s On the Heights of Despair, David Chalmers’s Reality+, the biography Naked Under the Cosmos by Jørgen Haave, as well as writings by Ulrich Horstmann and Herman Tønnessen. Most of these translations were the first ever published in Russian. For works that had been translated before, new annotated translations were produced.
In 2025–2026, published a two-volume authorial work on philosophical pessimism, The Tragic, comprising The Experience of the Tragic and Processual Pessimism: On the Nature of Cosmic Suffering and Human Nothingness. Both volumes were issued in Russian and English.
Has written and edited articles for the Russian- and English-language Wikipedia, and in 2024 digitized Estonian books in Russian. A sole interview was published in DARKER magazine in 2025
In 2024–2026, prepared and released in Russian a body of works by the Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe — On the Tragic, I Choose Truth (jointly with A. Næss and H. Tønnessen), an interview, and related articles. This marked the first print edition of these works. Translated David Benatar’s The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions, Emil Cioran’s On the Heights of Despair, David Chalmers’s Reality+, the biography Naked Under the Cosmos by Jørgen Haave, as well as writings by Ulrich Horstmann and Herman Tønnessen. Most of these translations were the first ever published in Russian. For works that had been translated before, new annotated translations were produced.
In 2025–2026, published a two-volume authorial work on philosophical pessimism, The Tragic, comprising The Experience of the Tragic and Processual Pessimism: On the Nature of Cosmic Suffering and Human Nothingness. Both volumes were issued in Russian and English.
Has written and edited articles for the Russian- and English-language Wikipedia, and in 2024 digitized Estonian books in Russian. A sole interview was published in DARKER magazine in 2025
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Этот документ представляет собой интервью под названием «Встреча с норвежским философом» из журнала Dyade, № 1, 1975 года, в котором Виктор Роддвик беседует с философом Петером Весселем Цапффе.
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This document is an interview titled “Meeting with a Norwegian Philosopher” from the journal Dyade, no. 1, 1975, in which Viktor Roddvik interviews the philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe.
ISBN-13: 978-5006745506
In addition to Peter Zapffe's dialogue with Herman Tennessen, which is an excellent addition to "On the Tragic," the book contains a critical essay by Arne Ness on Tennessen, which will be interesting to those who are familiar with Tennessen's "Happiness for Pigs." This is followed by Tennessean's response to Ness's essay, and the book ends with Zapffe's epilogue.
In many ways, the book is a tribute to Tennessean and, as the publisher's message says,: "At his (Tennessean's) own request, the University Publishing House is releasing these texts as a special mark on his path."