Aleksey F. Losev. Twenty-Five Years of Work in the Field of Classical Philology (1915–1940)

Occupation: Professor at the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University; Leading Researcher at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS; Head of the Department at the Library-Museum “The A.F. Losev House”
Affiliation:
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS
Library-Museum “The A.F. Losev House”
Address: 1 Leninskie gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia

Journal name

Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka

Edition

Volume 79 Issue 6

Pages

64-72

Abstract

For the first time in scientific and scholarly circulation, from the personal archive of the great Russian thinker A. F. Losev (1893–1988), there is introduced a unique ‘Ego-document’ of 1941 – a Report prepared in partial requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philology, representing the history of the scholarly growth of the thinker, given by himself and from his point of view. This text is important not only from a historical and biographical perspective, but also as a valuable author's evidence of methodological principles and their evolution over the course of 25 years – from 1915 to 1940.

Keywords

A.F. Losev, ancient literature, philology, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, methodology

Acknowledgment

The published study was carried out at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences with financial support from the Russian Science Foundation (RSF, project № 17-18-01432-П).

Received

25.12.2020

Publication date

25.12.2020

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22848

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GOST	Takho-Godi E. Aleksey F. Losev. Twenty-Five Years of Work in the Field of Classical Philology (1915–1940) // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2020. – V. 79. – Issue 6 C. 64-72 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S241377150013066-5-1 (circulation date: 25.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S241377150013066-5
MLA	Takho-Godi, Elena "Aleksey F. Losev. Twenty-Five Years of Work in the Field of Classical Philology (1915–1940)." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 79.6 (2020):64-72. DOI: 10.31857/S241377150013066-5
APA	Takho-Godi E. (2020). Aleksey F. Losev. Twenty-Five Years of Work in the Field of Classical Philology (1915–1940). Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 79(6), pp.64-72 DOI: 10.31857/S241377150013066-5

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