Academician Oizerman on Time and Himself (Interview. 1992)

Abstract

In an interview with S.N. Korsakov (1992) academician Theodor Ilyich Oizerman talks about the dramatic events of the history of Soviet philosophy. We are talking about philosophical faculty of Moscow University in 1950-ies. The philosophical struggle here has become acute. Its initiator was professor Z.Ya. Beletsky, who believed that classical German philosophy is a theoretical source of Nazism, and that the objective world is the objective truth. Beletsky used a political defense of his views - he wrote letters to Stalin. As a result, the philosophical faculty of Moscow University was a field of sharp struggle views. T.I. Oizerman talks about his teacher, the academician G.F. Aleksandrov. He explains the reasons why G.F. Aleksandrov could not realize himself as a philosopher. T.I. Oizerman puts forward his version of events connected with the expultion of E.V. Ilyenkov from the faculty of philosophy in 1955. There are very interesting memories of T.I. Oizerman on the time of E.V. Ilyenkov in the graduate school. T. I. Oizerman talks about the character and work of his colleagues in the Department of the history of philosophy of philosophical faculty of Moscow University. We are talking about V.F. Asmus, M.A. Dynnik, B.E. Bykhovsky.