2018 - Franco Angeli
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History of Philosophy in the Early Soviet Epoch
217-234 p.
- Early Soviet Marxism paid attention to the history of philosophy for both theoretical and pedagogical reasons, since the general theory of Marxism claimed to be the highest result of the entire philosophical tradition, and considered studying materialist conceptions of the past an effective way of training the new Communist officials. On such a background, this article especially dwells on the debate between Mechanists and Deborinists, which took place in the Twenties, and in particular on the discussions around Varjas's methodological reflections in 1926-1927. Some of the most relevant figures of the forthcoming Soviet history of philosophy, such as Valentin Asmus, took part very openly in this debate. The chances for real discussion closed up in 1931. Yet the history of philosophy remained a sort of "safe" field of study all through the Soviet time. [Publishers' text].
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ISSN: 1972-5558
KEYWORDS
- Marxism, historiography, method, theory, historical materialism
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In this issue
- Introduction : writing a universal history of philosophy : soviet philosophical historiography in a comparative perspective
- History of Philosophy in the Early Soviet Epoch
- What History of Philosophy Do We Need, or, Is Soviet Scientific Approach to the History of Philosophy Really Scientific?
- Rethinking History : The 1964 Interdisciplinary Conference On Methodological Questions of Historical Science
- The Philosophy of the Russian Enlightenment in Soviet Historiography : Names and Problems
- Provincialising Europe? : Soviet Historiography of Philosophy and the Question of Eurocentrism
- From Aristotole, Through Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd to Dialectical Materialism : Soviet Approaches Towards the History of Medieval Philosophy in the 1950s and 1960s
- Merab Mamardašvili : Kant, Descartes, and the History of Philosophy
- Soviet Studies in Renaissance Philosophy as a Basis for Developing a New View on History (1960-1980s)
- Science and Politics in the Newly Born Soviet Union : Silvano Tagliagambe's Analysis in Ludovico Geymonat's Storia del pensiero filosofico e scientifico
- Soviet Theory of the History of Philosophy as Capstone of Soviet Philosophical Culture
- Index
