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From Aristotole, Through Ibn Sīnā and Ibn Rushd to Dialectical Materialism : Soviet Approaches Towards the History of Medieval Philosophy in the 1950s and 1960s
295-310 p.
- The publication of Orest Traxtenberg's Studies on the History of Western European Medieval Philosophy (1957) is generally accepted as the date of birth of the Soviet historiography of medieval philosophy. The aim of this article is to outline, starting from the publication of Traxtenberg's Studies, the way in which the Soviet canon in the study of medieval, including Arabic, philosophy was constructed in the 1950s-'60s. In addition, the birth of Soviet philosophical Mediaevistik is discussed in the article in the perspective the fight between Neo-Thomism and Marxism-Leninism that was taking part in the 1950s on both historiographical and doctrinal levels. [Publishers' text].
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ISSN: 1972-5558
KEYWORDS
- History of philosophy, Soviet philosophy, medieval philosophy, Neo-Thomism, Averroism
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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
