A. F. Losev

The Dialectics of Myth
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    The Dialectics of Myth
    Aleksei F Losev
    Manufacturer: Routledge
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    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 0415284678

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    Alexei Fedorovich Losev (1893-1988) was among the greatest Russian philosophers, thinkers and classicists of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Mikhail Bakhtin, and a scholar of astonishing erudition with a love of the ancient world, his work remained almost unknown to the public until the fall of communism in 1990. The Dialectics of Myth, published here for the first time in the English language, remains his foremost achievement. Setting out a provocative and spiritually informed account of the way that myth informs secular and religious ideologies, it challenges limited interpretations of myths as mere poetic allegories, primitive scientific constructs, or channels for religious dogma and political fabrication. Insisting upon the miraculous elements of myth, the book creates a powerful and readable defence for mythic experience as a genuine part of consciousness, reality and being.
    The Dialectics of Myth is possibly the last book of non-Marxist philosophy to have been published in Russia prior to the onset of Stalinism. It was suppressed during Stalin's regime, and its editions confiscated and destroyed, whilst its implicit attack on the authorisation Russian state resulted in Losev's arrest in 1930 and his confinement for three years in a forced labour camp. Following his release, Losev was never again permitted to write on spiritual or political themes: The Dialectics of Myth thus remains his final work as well as his masterpiece. It stands today as a timeless classic of inestimable importance for scholars of religion, philosophy, literature, psychology and politics. This special Routledge edition, based upon the definitive Russian text, includes a full introduction, glossary, chronology and notes.

    A.F. Losev i kultura XX veka: Losevskie chteniia
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      A.F. Losev i kultura XX veka: Losevskie chteniia

      Manufacturer: Nauka
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      ASIN: 5020127469
      Gomer
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        Gomer
        A. F. Losev
        Manufacturer: Molodaya gvardiya
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover
        ASIN: 5235029291

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        Kniga krupnejshego znatoka antichnosti A.F.Loseva predstavlyaet soboj fundamental'noe issledovanie drevnegrecheskogo eposa, svyazannogo vo vsej mirovoj kul'ture s imenem slepogo i mudrogo pevtsa Gomera. "On, slovno charodej, vse v perly obraschaet, I vechno raduet, i vechno voskhischaet. Odushevlenie v ego stikhakh zhivet..." Doskonal'noe znanie Gomerovskogo voprosa, blestyaschaya interpretatsiya teksta - eto lish' nekotorye otlichitel'nye osobennosti truda A.F.Loseva, ne imeyuschego analogov ni u nas, ni za rubezhom. Novoe izdanie knigi, nesomnenno, obratit na sebya vnimanie, kak spetsialistov, tak i samogo shirokogo kruga chitatelej-gumanitariev.
        Platon. Aristotel'
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          Platon. Aristotel'
          A. A. Takho-Godi A. F. Losev
          Manufacturer: Molodaya gvardiya
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover
          ASIN: 5235028309

          Philosophers:

          1. Lukács, Georg
          2. Lupasco, Stéphane
          3. Lyotard, Jean-François
          4. Machiavelli, Nicolo
          5. MacIntyre, Alasdair
          6. Marcel, Gabriel
          7. Marcus Aurelius
          8. Marcuse, Herbert
          9. Marx, Karl
          10. Meinong, Alexius

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