Alexey Losev belongs to the cohort of the last classical philosophers. His creative legacy is an example of the multifaceted work of the great thinker.
On September 23, 1893 in the city of Novocherkassk in the family of a simple Cossack and the daughter of a clergyman, a boy Aleksey was born, in the future a philosopher, philologist and representative of Soviet culture.
Childhood and youth
Alexei Losev studied at the gymnasium, which he subsequently graduated with good grades and later went to enroll in a philologist in Moscow. After graduation, he remained at the Department of Philology and was preparing to become a professor of science. During this time, he attended meetings of psychologists and philosophers, where he met many prominent figures of that time.
Adult biography
For some reason, Alexei Fedorovich was not allowed to teach philosophy, so he went to work at the Department of Classical Philology. The talented scientist worked at various universities, such as the Nizhny Novgorod University, the Moscow Conservatory, and the State Academy of Art Sciences.
In 1922, Alexei Losev married Valentina Sokolova, who took her husband's surname. After seven years of joint personal life, when the persecution of the church intensified, the Losevs secretly tonsured a monk.
Alexey Fedorovich actively studied philosophy, in particular the aesthetics of words and symbols, as well as the philosophy of a name. As part of his research in 1930, he wrote a book in which he rejected dialectical materialism and the ideas of the Marxists. For this, he and his wife were arrested, Alexei was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and Valentina to five.
With the help of Ekaterina Peshkova, the Losevs were released after 2 years of their imprisonment. After that, Alexey, learning from the mistakes of the past, became a supporter of Marxism and often quoted Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin in his works.
During the war, Aleksey Fedorovich taught the history of philosophy at Moscow University, and since 1944 he was a professor at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. When Stalin died, the country breathed a sigh of relief, and Losev was no exception. He began to actively publish his works. Philosiph published over 800 works, participated in writing encyclopedias.
In 1954, his wife Valentina died of an illness. Losev married Aza Alibekovna again, but their marriage was not for love: being practically blind, Alexei Fedorovich needed a person who would officially represent him and, in general, help him live.
Recognition of the work of the philosopher
In the 60s of the 20th century, his famous book "History of Ancient Aesthetics" was published, a work on which he worked for a very long time and was based on the works of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and other prominent philosophers. With his works, he actually changed the ideas of the scientific and philosophical world about antiquity and ancient aesthetics.
After a while, like-minded people began to gather around him, and their number increased. Already in the 80s, when Aleksey Fedorovich was in poor health and saw practically nothing, he tried to pass on more knowledge to his followers, actively preached to them his faith and name-glory. Before his death, he even managed to take part in the filming of the film "Losev", which was released after the death of the philosopher.
Alexey Fedorovich Losev left this world in May 1988.
