Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus
Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus (Russian: Валенти́н Фердина́ндович А́смус; 1894 – 1975) was a Russian philosopher. He was one of the small group who continued the classical European philosophical tradition through the early Soviet times.[1] He was an independent thinker and unorthodox Marxist,[2] with interests in the history of philosophy and aesthetics.
He graduated from Kiev University in 1919, then moved to Moscow in 1927.[3] At this period he attacked the views of William James.[4] In the mid-1920s, he was a theorist of literary Constructivism.[5]
Through his wife Irina, he became a friend of Boris Pasternak, from about 1931.[6] His major work Marx and Bourgeois Historicism (1933) was influenced by György Lukács.[7] At this point an opponent of formal logic, he changed position and wrote a text book on it. There is a story of his being summoned to see Joseph Stalin, and required to give logic lectures to Red Army generals.[8]
He was Professor at Moscow State University from 1942 to 1972.[9] In the 1960s he edited Plato, with A. F. Losev. Outside the USSR, Asmus was mostly known for his contributions to studying Immanuel Kant.
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