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Saving philosopher Descartes: Valentin Asmus as a guardian of culture
Early in his career, Valentin Asmus gave a polemical lecture on Descartes’s dialectics, and during the “Thaw” he published a book on René Descartes’s...
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False contradiction: a critique of Immanuel Kant’s transcendental dialectic in the Kantian thought of Valentin Asmus
Valentin Asmus made a significant contribution to the formation of key interpretations, analyses and evaluations of Immanuel Kant’s work in the...
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Spinoza and Tolstoy in Valentin Asmus’ comparative analysis
The paper investigates the dependence of Leo Tolstoy’s ethical, religious and political ideas on Benedict Spinoza’s philosophy. The Soviet...
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On Soviet criticism of fascist interpretation of Hegel: the case of V. F. Asmus
The paper is about the Soviet philosopher Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus (1894–1975) and his criticism of the fascist and Nazi appropriation of...
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Valentin Asmus’s historico-philosophical articles in the journal “Pod znamenem marksizma”: between philosophy and ideology
The article discusses the original critical dialectical approach of the Soviet philosopher Valentin F. Asmus. His publications on the heritage of...
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Valentin Asmus’s first book in émigré and in Soviet criticism in the 1920s
This article covers Valentin Asmus’s first book Dialectical Materialism and Logic and response thereto among émigré and Soviet intellectuals. The...
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Deciphering Soviet philosophical forewords: an attentive reading of V.F. Asmus
The article investigates the issue and the mechanisms of censorship and self-censorship in Soviet philosophy. The major forms of censorship are...
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Kant and Kantianism in Russia: A Historical Overview
This chapter provides a brief history of Kantianism in Russia since the late eighteenth century and identifies the main themes of Kantianism in...
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The “Men of the Sixties”: Philosophy as a Social Phenomenon
This chapter examines a renewal of philosophy in the Soviet Union in the late twentieth century that has become known as the “men of the sixties”...
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The prohibited Nietzsche: anti-Nitzscheanism in Soviet Russia
This article discusses the reception of Nietzsche’s philosophy within the USSR. It covers the four phases of Soviet Nietzscheanism between 1920 and...
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Mikhail Lifshits and the Soviet image of Giambattista Vico
Mikhail Lifshits’ interpretation of the scholarly work of the Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico is analysed against the background of other...
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Anhang
Soweit möglich, werden Marx- (und Engels-) Zitate in diesem Handbuch anhand der Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2) und nach der...
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Rezeption
Die Kritik des Kapitalismus war das Lebensthema von Karl Marx. Von den frühen 1840er Jahren bis zum Ende seines Lebens verfolgte Marx das Ziel, die...
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Skepticism and faith in Shestov’s early critique of rationalism
Shestov’s work can be summed up under six headings. Three are sharp contrasts, three are paradoxes. (1) First there is the contrast between Shestov...
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Politische Philosophie des Deutschen Idealismus (Kant, Fichte, Hegel)
Die politische Philosophie des Deutschen Idealismus wird oft als ein Pendant zur Französischen Revolution gelesen. Sie war demnach die »Revolution«...
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Vladimir Alexandrovich Smirnov as a Founder of Research Schools in Logic and Methodology of Science in the USSR and Russia
The article gives a short account of V.A. Smirnov’s scientific biography, including his work in Tomsk University in Siberia and in the Department of...
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The Practice of IFN
The aim of Soviet IFN was a complete Marxist-Leninist history of philosophy. This project was understood, firstly, as the reproduction of the...
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Soviet Philosophical Culture
The aim of this chapter is to provide the background for the discussion of Soviet history of philosophy, IFN, through an analysis and survey of...