[Xmca-l] Ilyenkov's 1954 Theses!

[Andy Blunden]

The Marxists Internet Archive announces the publication, 
free to the world, of the founding document of an important 
current of contemporary Marxism: /Theses on the Question of 
the Interconnection of Philosophy and Knowledge of Nature 
and Society in the Process of their Historical Development/.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/works/articles/Theses.pdf

In April 1954, Evald Ilyenkov and his friend Valentin 
Korovikov, junior lecturers at Moscow State University, 
wrote these "theses on philosophy." The theses were the 
subject of discussion at an open meeting of their 
department. The subsequent furore pitched Ilyenkov and 
Korovikov against the Soviet philosophical establishment, 
controlled by philosophers who had come to prominence at the 
height of Stalinism. Korovikov and Ilyenkov survived only 
when Khrushchev's famous speech at the 20th Congress pushed 
the conflict into the background. Ilyenkov took his own life 
in 1979. The Theses were only discovered by Ilyenkov's 
daughter, Elena Illesh, in 2016.

The Theses have been published for the first time in 
/Philosophical Thought in Russia in the Second Half of the 
20th Century, a contemporary view from Russia and abroad/. 
ed. Marin Bykova and Vladimir Lektorsky, Bloomsbury 
Academic, 2019.

Published on marxists.org with the kind permission of the 
translator, David Bakhurst, co-editor Marina Bykova and 
Colleen Coalter for Bloomsbury Academic.


https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/philosophical-thought-in-russia-in-the-second-half-of-the-twentieth-century-9781350040588/

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*Andy Blunden*
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