Biography:Alexander Spirkin
Alexander Spirkin | |
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| Born | Saratov Governorate, Russian SFSR |
| Died | June 28, 2004 (aged 85) Moscow, Russia |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Soviet philosophy |
| School | Marxism |
Main interests | Dialectical materialism, Psychology, philosophical problems of cybernetics |
Alexander Spirkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Гео́ргиевич Спи́ркин; 1918–2004) was a Soviet and Russia n philosopher and psychologist. He was born in Saratov Governorate and graduated from the Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 1959 he received his doctorate in philosophy for a dissertation on the origin of consciousness.[1] He became a professor in 1970, and a year later was elected Vice-President of the USSR Philosophical Society. On November 26, 1974, Alexander Spirkin became a Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.[2] His principal works deal with the problems of consciousness and self-consciousness, worldview, and the subject matter, structure and functions of philosophy. Prof. Spirkin’s Fundamentals of Philosophy (1988; English translation 1990) expounding Marxist–Leninist philosophy[3] in popular form was awarded a prize at a competition of textbooks for students of higher educational establishments.
Works (in English)
- Alexander Spirkin; R. Daglish (Translator) (1984), Dialectical Materialism., London: Central Books Ltd, ISBN 0-7147-2010-0, archived from the original on 7 January 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20110107133852/http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/spirkin/works/dialectical-materialism/index.html, retrieved 2011-01-15
- Alexander Spirkin; Sergei Syrovatkin (translator) (1990), Fundamentals of Philosophy., Moscow: Progress Publishers, ISBN 5-01-002582-5, http://su-ltd.mylivepage.ru/file/2715/6528_Spirkin_Al.-Fundamentals_of_Philosophy.pdf, retrieved 2011-01-15 First published in 1988, as “Основы философии”
See also
- Philosophy in the Soviet Union
- Dialectical materialism
- Historical materialism
References
- ↑ "Спиркин Александр Георгиевич". Russian Internet University for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20110930142138/http://www.i-u.ru/biblio/persons.aspx?id=1484. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
- ↑ "Alexander Spirkin’s biography". Russian Academy of Sciences. http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-2337.ln-ru.dl-.pr-inf.uk-12. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
- ↑ viz., dialectical and historical materialism.
External links
- A.G. Spirkin’s profile at the website of the Russian Academy of Sciences (in Russian)
- Download A.G. Spirkin Fundamentals of Philosophy in DjVu and other formats from Internet Archive
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