V. Asmus
Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus (russian: Валенти́н Фердина́ндович А́смус; December 30, 1894 – June 4, 1975) was a Soviet philosopher. He was one of the small group who continued the classical European philosophical tradition through the early Soviet Union, Soviet times. He was an independent thinker and unorthodox Marxism, Marxist, with interests in the history of philosophy and aesthetics. He graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, St. Vladimir University in 1919, then moved to Moscow in 1927. At this period he attacked the views of William James. In the mid-1920s, he was a theorist of literary Constructivism (philosophy of science), constructivism. Through his wife Irina, he became a friend of Boris Pasternak, from about 1931. His major work ''Marx and Bourgeois Historicism'' (1933) was influenced by György Lukács. At this point an opponent of Mathematical logic, formal logic, he changed position and wrote a textbook on it. The ...
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