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OverviewAudacity of the Spirit by A.F. Losev demonstrates the merits of the dialectical method to understand antiquity, history, culture and philosophy. The book is a guide to dialectics for beginners and a major philosopher’s summing-up of his reflections to a general audience. It is an English translation from the Russian original Дерзание духа (Politizdat Moskva, 1988), translated by Peter R. Weisensel and Vitali I. Betaneli. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Vitali I. Betaneli , Peter R. WeisenselPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 334 Weight: 0.509kg ISBN: 9789004367333ISBN 10: 9004367330 Pages: 210 Publication Date: 20 June 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsTranslators’ Preface Foreword: Dare to be Wise! 1 A Primer in Dialectics 2 Who is Aleksei Losev? 3 The Book before You 4 Plunge into Living Thought XX References Note Introduction: The Thinkers’ Treasure Part 1: To Learn Dialectics 1 How Do We Learn to Think? 2 To Think, and to Do 3 Dialectics and Common Sense 1 Movement 2 Rest 3 Mobile Rest 4 Unity of Opposites 5 Unity of Opposites, Directed in a Certain Way 6 Unity and a Struggle of Opposites 7 Unity and a Struggle of Opposites in Its Formation 8 Historical Process 9 The Absolute and the Relative 4 On the Main Systems of Dialectics 5 The Unity of Three Concepts 6 On Dialectics as It Is Part 2: On the Benefits of Philosophy 8 7 Twelve Theses on the Culture of Antiquity 1 Thesis 1 2 Thesis 2 3 Thesis 3 4 Thesis 4 5 Thesis 5 6 Thesis 6 7 Thesis 7 8 Thesis 8 9 Thesis 9 10 Thesis 10 11 Thesis 11 12 Thesis 12 82 The Philosophy of Antiquity as a Whole and in Its Parts 1 Some Common Prejudices and Preconceptions 1.1 Obstacle 1 1.2 Obstacle 2 1.3 Obstacle 3 2 A General Outline of the Primeval Stage 2.1 Mythology as the Fundamental Ideology 2.2 Communal–Clan Relations 2.3 The Cosmos 2.4 The Historical Oddities of Idea and Matter 2.5 The Philosophy of Antiquity is Nothing Other than Aesthetics 3 An Approximately Systematic Review of the Ideas of a Given Period 3.1 Somatism 3.2 Discreteness and Continuality 3.3 Physiognomism 3.4 Genesiourgy, Telesiourgy, and Cosmologism 3.5 The Inner Life of the Primeval Cosmos 3.6 Dialectics and Primeval Collectivism 3.7 Self-Justification of the Sensual-Material Cosmos 4 Conclusion 9 The Formation of the Marxist-Leninist Culture of Thinking 1 Historical-Philosophical Science 1.1 School of Thought 1.2 School of Philosophy 1.3 Nature, Society, and Culture 1.4 History of Philosophy in Service of the History of Thought 1.5 Philosophy of Culture as the Principle of the Transformation of Reality 1.6 Insufficiency of Understanding Philosophy as a Teaching about the Relation of Thought to Being 1.7 The I, as the Agent of Culture, Is That I Who Has a Goal to Practically Transform Any Not-I 2 Symbol 2.1 Symbol is a Function of Reality 2.2 Symbol is the Meaning of Reality 2.3 Symbol is an Interpretation of Reality 2.4 Symbol is a Signification (Designation) of Reality 2.5 Symbol is a Transformation of Reality 3 Concept and Its Meaning 3.1 Relation among Concepts 3.2 The Concept of the Thing and the Essence of the Thing 3.3 The Concept of the Thing and the Essence of the Thing in Greater Detail: The Concept of the Thing as Its Community 3.4 The Dialectical Way of Knowing Truth 1 0The Philosophy of Culture 1 Virtual Eidologism 2 Sensual-Material Cosmologism 3 Dialectics 4 Intellectual Rupture, or the Rupture of the Intellect 5 Perpetual Returning 6 Ahistoricism 7 Heroism and Fate, or Sculpture and Fatalism 11 History of Philosophy as a School of Thought 1 Thesis 1 2 Thesis 2 3 Thesis 3 4 Thesis 4 Part 3: Worldview and Life 12 On the Eternal Youthfulness of Science 13 Life’s Credo 1 A Thing, a Coming-to-Be, and a Life 2 Life of a Person, Society, and History 3 A Credo, a Sociohistorical Imperative, and a Sacrificial Heroic Feat of Personal Freedom 4 The Most Complex Theory and the Simplest Practice 5 An Example of an Application of a Life Credo to a Historical-Philosophical System 14 Audacity of the Spirit 15 On a Worldview 16 On Being a Member of the Intelligentsia 1 What Is It Not to Be a Member of the Intelligentsia? 2 A Member of the Intelligentsia and Personhood 3 A Member of the Intelligentsia and Ideology 4 A Member of the Intelligentsia and the Transformation of Reality 5 A Member of the Intelligentsia and Culture 6 A Member of the Intelligentsia and Social-Personal Historical Heroism 7 A Member of the Intelligentsia and Simplicity 8 Realization of Being a Member of the Intelligentsia 17 First of All, Become a Student 18 A Miracle without Miracles IndexReviewsAuthor InformationVitali I. Betaneli, Ph.D. (1977), from the USSR Academy of Sciences, is a retired senior research chemist and educator. He is co-author of three patents, 39 papers, one book, and is the translator and editor of two monographs from English to Russian. Peter R. Weisensel, Ph.D. (1973) is an emeritus professor of European history, Macalester College (Minnesota, USA). He has published monographs and articles on imperial Russia, and has translated two other books on Russian history from Russian to English. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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