Теодор Ильич Ойзерман. Характер и судьба

Аннотация

The article is dedicated to the life and work of academician Theodor Oizerman (1914-2017). It provides milestones and individual episodes of his biography, considers the problem of choosing his creative destination first as a writer, then as a philosopher. The author points out some of his published stories. She characterizes his professional activities at the Moscow State University and at the Institute of philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other institutions. In 1941 T. Oizerman defended his thesis «Marxist-Leninist doctrine on the transformation of necessity into freedom». The article discusses his way on the fronts of war from a senior instructor of political divisions to a participant of the fight on the Dniester, Visla, Oder, to contusions, and post-war work in Baden. He has military awards, as well as awards for his professional activities. In 1966 he was elected a correspondent member, and in 1981 he was elected an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The article indicates T. Oizerman’s achievements in the field of domestic and world philosophy in the context of the halfcentury development of Russian philosophy and public life, and provides the names of his large-scale works written in the period from 2003 to 2011.