Acta Structuralica

international journal for structuralist research

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The linguistic aporias of Alexei Losev's mystical personalism

Gasan Gusejnov

pp. 153-164

Abstract

Alexey Losev's concept of "personality' was developed in his writings from the 1920s, "The Dialectics of Myth" and "The Philosophy of Name". In his later works (e.g. on the aesthetics of the Renaissance and in his book about Vladimir Soloviev) Losev also understood the "personality' outside of the boundaries of philosophy and theology. For him, the mystical dimension of personality in the end dominates logical and cultural structures of the subject. Losev's concept of "personality' as a myth, a symbol, rather than an abstract theory was an attack on the European individualism seen as a principle of the self-affirmation of the isolated subject.

Publication details

Published in:

Plotnikov Nikolaj (2009) The Discourse of personality in the Russian intellectual tradition. Studies in East European Thought 61 (2-3).

Pages: 153-164

DOI: 10.1007/s11212-009-9083-1

Full citation:

Gusejnov Gasan (2009) „The linguistic aporias of Alexei Losev's mystical personalism“. Studies in East European Thought 61 (2-3), 153–164.