A Commentary on Evald Ilyenkov’s Cosmology of the Spirit
Keywords:
Ilyenkov, philosophy in the USSR, cosmology, Hegel, Spinoza, Engels, Pobisk Kuznetsov
Abstract
This article traces the publication history of Evald Ilyenkov’s early text, “Cosmology of the Spirit,” it presents its key historical and intellectual contexts and influences, and provides an overview of the contemporary literature related to its interpretation. The commentary also explains the translator’s choices in his work with Ilyenkov’s terminology.
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Ilyenkov, E. V. and Korovikov, V. (2016). Strasti po tezizam: O predmete filosofii 1954–1955 [Passions on the theses: On the subject of philosophy (1954–1955)]. Moscow: Kanon+.
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Maidansky, Andrey. (2014a). “Reality of the Ideal.” In Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism, ed. Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen, 125–43. Brill: Leiden.
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Mareev, Sergei (2015). E. V. Ilyenkov: Zhit’ filosofiei. Moscow: Akademicheskii Proekt/ Triksta.
Nosov, Nikolay (2007). Prestupnye Filosofy [Criminal philosophers]. Moscow: Olma Press.
Sakata, Siochi (1971). “Theoretical Physics and Dialectics of Nature” [1947]. Supplement. Progress of Theoretical Physics 50. https://www.marxists.org/subject/japan/ sakata/ch01.htm.
Sevastyanov, V. I. (1988). “Filosof Kosmicheskogo Veka” [Philosopher of the cosmic age]. Nauka i Religiia [Science and religion] 9: 19.
Tsvetkov, Aleksei (2013) “O Poslednem Sovetskom Marksiste” [On the last Soviet Marx ist]. Prime Magazine. http://primerussia.ru/article_materials/291.
Bakhurst, David (2013). “Soviet Philosophy and Then Some: David Bakhurst Inter viewed by Richard Marshall.” 3AM Magazine. http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ sovietphilosophyeducationandthinkingaboutreasons/
Barashenkov, V. (1988). “Sud’by Vselennoi: O filosofskoi gipoteze Ėval’da Vasil’evicha Il’enkova” [Judgements of the universe: On the philosophical hypotheses of Evald Vasilevich Ilyenkov]. Nauka i religiia [Science and religion] 10: 5–7.
Engels, Friedrich (1987). “Dialectics of Nature.” In Marx & Engels Collected Works, Vol. 25, 313–590. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
Hoberman, James (1998). The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Ilyenkov, E. V. (1975). “The Universal.” In Philosophical Investigations in the USSR, ed. Frederick J. Adelmann, 26-51. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College.
Ilyenkov, E.V. (1991). “Kosmologiya Dukha” [Cosmology of the Spirit]. In Filosofiia i kul'tura [Philosophy and culture], 415–37. Moscow: Politizdat.
Ilyenkov, E.V. (2008). Dialectical Logic. Trans. H. Campbell Creighton. Delhi: Aakar Books.
Ilyenkov, E. V. and Korovikov, V. (2016). Strasti po tezizam: O predmete filosofii 1954–1955 [Passions on the theses: On the subject of philosophy (1954–1955)]. Moscow: Kanon+.
Kline, George L. (2009). “Shpet as translator of Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes.” In Gustav Shpet’s Contribution to Philosophy and Cultural Theory, ed. G. Tikhanov, 140–156. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.
Levant, Alex, and Vesa Oittinen (eds.) (2014). Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism. Leiden: Brill.
Maidansky, Andrey. (2014a). “Reality of the Ideal.” In Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism, ed. Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen, 125–43. Brill: Leiden.
Maidansky, Andrey. (2014b). “The Dialectical Logic of Evald Ilyenkov and Western European Marxism.” In Russian Thought in Europe: Reception, Polemics, Developments, ed. Theresa Obolevitch, Józef Bremer, Tomasz Homa, 537–49. Krakow: Akademia “Ignatianum” Wydawnictwo WAM.
Mareev, Sergei (2015). E. V. Ilyenkov: Zhit’ filosofiei. Moscow: Akademicheskii Proekt/ Triksta.
Nosov, Nikolay (2007). Prestupnye Filosofy [Criminal philosophers]. Moscow: Olma Press.
Sakata, Siochi (1971). “Theoretical Physics and Dialectics of Nature” [1947]. Supplement. Progress of Theoretical Physics 50. https://www.marxists.org/subject/japan/ sakata/ch01.htm.
Sevastyanov, V. I. (1988). “Filosof Kosmicheskogo Veka” [Philosopher of the cosmic age]. Nauka i Religiia [Science and religion] 9: 19.
Tsvetkov, Aleksei (2013) “O Poslednem Sovetskom Marksiste” [On the last Soviet Marx ist]. Prime Magazine. http://primerussia.ru/article_materials/291.
Published
2017-12-18
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Vivaldi, G. (2017). A Commentary on Evald Ilyenkov’s Cosmology of the Spirit. Stasis, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-2017-5-2-192-203
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