Education
Moscow Pedagogical Institute and Moscow State University.
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Main publications:
(1959) Filosofiia Gegelia [The Philosophy of Hegel], Moscow.
(1959) (with V. V. Sokolov) Istoriia domarksistskoi:<trube:hnoißlosoßi [The History of Pre-Marxist foreign Philosophy], Moscow.
(1963) (with Z. V. Smirnova) Ocherki islorii este- ''eheskikh uchenii [Essays in the History of Aesthetic Doctrines], Moscow.
(1962-1970) (ed.) Istoriia estetiki The History of Aesthetics], 5 vols, Moscow.
(1964) (ed. with V. A. Razumnyi) Kratkii slovar’po estetiki [Short Dictionary of Aesthetics], Moscow.
(1974) Esteticheskaia teoriia K. Marksa, F. Engelsa, V. I. Lenina [The Aesthetic Theory of K. Marx, F. Engels and V. I. Lenin], Moscow.
(1978) Istoriia esteticheskoi mysli [History of Aesthetic Thought], Moscow -
second edition, 1983.
Secondary literature:
Alekseev, P. V. (ed.) (1993) Filosify Rossii xix-xx stoletti [Russian Philosophers of the 19th—20th Centuries], Moscow, p. 136.
Scanlan, James P. (1985) Marxism in the USSR: A Critical Survey of Current Soviet Thought, Cornell University Press.
Swiderski, Edward M. (1979) The Philosophical Foundations of Soviet Aesthetics, Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
Mikhail Fedotovich Ovsiannikov
Edit Profileacademic administrator Marxist aesthetician
Career
1960 87. Head, Department of Marxist-Leninist Aesthetics, Moscow Mate University. 1963-1987, Head, Section of Aesthetics of the Institute of Philosophy of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. 1968-1974, Dean, Philosophy Faculty, Moscow State University.
Works
Other Work
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Main publications:
(1959) Filosofiia Gegelia [The Philosophy of Hegel], Moscow.
(1959) (with V. V. Sokolov) Istoriia domarksistskoi:
(1963) (with Z. V. Smirnova) Ocherki islorii este- ''eheskikh uchenii [Essays in the History of Aesthetic Doctrines], Moscow.
(1962-1970) (ed.) Istoriia estetiki The History of Aesthetics], 5 vols, Moscow.
(1964) (ed. with V. A. Razumnyi) Kratkii slovar’po estetiki [Short Dictionary of Aesthetics], Moscow.
(1974) Esteticheskaia teoriia K. Marksa, F. Engelsa, V. I. Lenina [The Aesthetic Theory of K. Marx, F. Engels and V. I. Lenin], Moscow.
(1978) Istoriia esteticheskoi mysli [History of Aesthetic Thought], Moscow -
second edition, 1983.
Secondary literature:
Alekseev, P. V. (ed.) (1993) Filosify Rossii xix-xx stoletti [Russian Philosophers of the 19th—20th Centuries], Moscow, p. 136.
Scanlan, James P. (1985) Marxism in the USSR: A Critical Survey of Current Soviet Thought, Cornell University Press.
Swiderski, Edward M. (1979) The Philosophical Foundations of Soviet Aesthetics, Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
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Views
A Marxist-Leninist with broad interests in the history of thought, Ovsiannikov aided in reintroducing Western European philosophy into the Soviet Union after the years of Stalinist isolation and in establishing aesthetics as a separate philosophical discipline within the framework of Marxist philosophy in the USSR. His history of ‘foreign philosophy' before Marx and his monograph on the philosophy of Hegel, both published in 1959, were among the first works of their kind to appear as a result of the post-Stalin ‘thaw’. In aesthetics his contributions included authorship and editorship of several groundbreaking works, including the first Russianlanguage dictionary of aesthetics, a history of aesthetic thought and a multivolume collection of Western and Russian sources in aesthetics. In keeping with his philosophical commitment to Marxism he gave special attention to the social context of art and to its ideological function of promoting the building of communism. Because of Ovsiannikov’s leadership positions at both Moscow State University and the Institute of Philosophy, the bulk of graduate study in aesthetics in the USSR took place under his aegis from the early 1960s until his death.
