Teodor Ilyich Oizerman (russian: Теодо́р Ильи́ч Ойзерма́н; – 25 March 2017) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher and academician.
Biography
Oizerman was born in
Petroverovka village,
Tiraspolsky Uyezd,
Kherson Governorate,
Russian Empire, into a
Jewish family. His parents were teachers. During
World War II he served in the
Red Army.
Oizerman was a member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences from 1981 until his death. He received an
honorary doctorate, from the
University of Jena in 1979 and the
USSR State Prize in 1983. In 1979 Oizerman was awarded the
Plekhanov prize for the monograph ''The main Trends in Philosophy''. He also served on the
Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public.
Following the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union, Oizerman moved towards
social democratic
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, anti-
Leninist positions. He viewed Lenin's interpretation and application of the ideas of
Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels in the
Russian Revolution
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as incorrect, and believed Lenin's view led towards
oligarchy rather than the victorious establishment of the
dictatorship of the proletariat.
Oizerman died on 25 March 2017 in Moscow at the age of 102.
Works
Oizerman was a prolific author. Below is a partial list of his
monograph
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In library cataloging, ''monograph ...
s.
*Возникновение марксизма — революционный переворот в философии (with V.I. Svetlov).
Moscow, 1948.
*Католическая философия империалистической реакции. Moscow, 1954.
*Немецкая классическая философия — один из теоретических источников марксизма. Moscow, 1955.
*Развитие марксистской теории на опыте революций 1948 г. Moscow, 1955.
*Философия Гегеля. Moscow, 1956.
*Обобщение Марксом и Энгельсом опыта революций 1848 г. (лекции). Moscow, 1956.
*Основные этапы развития домарксистской философии. Moscow, 1957.
*К. Маркс — основоположник диалектического и исторического материализма. Moscow, 1958.
*Неотомизм — философия современной реакционной буржуазии. Moscow, 1959.
*Основные черты современной буржуазной философии. Moscow, 1960.
*Чему учит и кому служит современная буржуазная социология (with A.F. Okulov). Moscow, 1960.
*Формирование философии марксизма. Moscow, 1962 (translated into English as "Making of the Marxist Philosophy" and into Arabic).
*Философия Фихте. Moscow, 1962.
*Проблемы историко-философской науки. Moscow, 1962 (translated into English as "Problems of the History of Philosophy", 1974, and into French as "Problèmes d'Histoire de la Philosophie", 1973 (as Théodore Oizerman)).
*Антикоммунизм — выражение кризиса буржуазной идеологии. Moscow, 1963.
*Zur Geschichte der vormarxistischen Philosophie.
Berlin, 1963.
*Die Enstehung der marxistischen Philosophie. Berlin, 1965 и 1980.
*Проблема отчуждения и буржуазная легенда о марксизме. Moscow, 1965.
*Entfremdung als historische Kategorie. Berlin, 1966.
*Марксистско-ленинское понимание свободы. Moscow, 1967.
*Ленинские принципы научной критики идеализма. Доклад на Научной конференции по теме «Ленинский этап в развитии марксистской философии». Moscow, 1969.
*Главные философские направления: теоретический анализ историко-философского процесса. Moscow, 1971 (translated into English as "The main trends in philosophy: a theoretical analysis of the history of philosophy", 1988, and into Persian as "مسايل تاريخ فلسفه").
*Кризис современного идеализма, Moscow, 1972.
*Der junge Marx im ideologischen Kampf der Gegenwart.
Frankfurt am Main, 1972.
*Философия И. Канта. Moscow, 1974.
*История диалектики XIV—XVIII вв (coauthored). Moscow, 1974.
*Философия Канта и современность. Moscow, 1974.
*Исторический материализм и идеология «технического пессимизма». Moscow, 1976.
*Научно-техническая революция и кризис современной буржуазной идеологии (coauthored). Moscow, 1978.
*История диалектики. Немецкая классическая философия (with A.S. Bogomolov, P.P. Gaydenko et al.). Moscow, 1978.
*Диалектический материализм и история философии (историко-философские очерки). Moscow, 1979.
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*Критика буржуазной концепции смерти философии. Moscow, 1980.
*Историко-философское учение Гегеля. Moscow, 1982.
*Основы теории историко-философского процесса (with A.S. Bogomolov). Moscow, 1983 (translated into English as "Principles of the Theory of the Historical Process in Philosophy", 1986, and into Arabic).
*Философия эпохи ранних буржуазных революций (coauthored). Moscow, 1983.
*Рациональное и иррациональное. Moscow, 1984.
*El materialismo dialectico у la historia de la filosofia.
Havana, 1984.
*Ленин. Философия. Современность (with R.I. Kosolapov, A.G. Yegorov et al.). Moscow, 1985.
*Критика критического рационализма. Moscow, 1988.
*Felsefe Tarihinin Sorunları (Проблемы истории философии).
Istanbul, 1988 и 1998.
*Маркс. Философия. Современность (with N.I. Lapin, M.Ya. Kovalzon, et al.). Moscow, 1988.
*Научно-философское воззрение марксизма. Moscow, 1989.
*Philosophie auf dem Wege zur Wissenschaft. Berlin, 1989.
*Философия раннего и позднего Шеллинга (With V.V. Lazarev). Moscow, 1990.
*Теория познания Канта (with I.S. Tsarskiy). Moscow, 1991.
*Теория познания. В 4-х томах. Институт философии АН СССР. Teodor Oizerman, ed. Moscow, 1991.
*Феноменология искусства (coauthored). Moscow, 1996.
*Философия как история философии.
Saint Petersburg, 1999.
*Марксизм и утопизм. — М.: Прогресс—Традиция, 2003.
*Оправдание ревизионизма. — M.: Канон+, POOИ «Реабилитация», 2005.
*Возникновение марксизма. — М.: Канон + РООИ «Реабилитация», 2010.
References
External links
;Works available online (in English)
"Problems of the History of Philosophy"Translated from the Russian by Robert Daglish. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1973.
* The main Trends in Philosophy. A Theoretical Analysis of the History of Philosophy. Translated by ''H. Campbell Creighton'', M.A. (Oxon). Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1988. (The book was in 1979 awarded the
Plekhanov prize under the decision of the USSR Academy of Sciences)
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in HTML format*
in DjVu format(
Internet Archive)
*: See a review of the book:
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1914 births
2017 deaths
Anti-Zionist Jews
People from Odesa Oblast
People from Tiraspolsky Uyezd
Ukrainian Jews
Soviet Jews
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Soviet philosophers
20th-century Russian philosophers
Russian centenarians
Men centenarians
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
Soviet military personnel of World War II
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Moscow State University alumni