Mark Moisevich Rosenthal (russian: Марк Моисеевич Розенталь; 1906–1975) was a Soviet philosopher and teacher, specializing in the fields of dialectical materialism, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy. He and Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin were the main authors of ''A Dictionary of Philosophy'', a Soviet dictionary on

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

Life

Mark Rosenthal was born in

Ustia, Ukraine Ustia ( uk, Устя, pl, Uście Biskupie) is a village in Ukraine located in Chortkiv Raion of Ternopil Oblast. It belongs to Melnytsia-Podilska settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. In 1880, the Jewish population of the town was ...

, in 1906. He lost both parents to typhus at an early age. In 1925 he joined the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

(CPSU). He worked at a metal factory and at a sugar mill before being admitted to the School of Philosophy in Moscow in 1928. In 1933, he graduated from the Institute of Red Professors. In 1946 he received a doctorate in philosophy.Santacruz Castro, Domingo (2009)
Mark. M. Rosental, una breve semblanza de su vida y legado teórico
. Servicio Informativo Ecuménico y Popular (SIEP). Accessed 15 May 2019. Later in life he edited a journal of literary criticism and headed the department of Historical and Dialectical Materialism at the CPSU Central Committee's

Higher Party School Education in the Soviet Union was guaranteed as a constitutional right to all people provided through state schools and universities. The education system that emerged after the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922 became internationally ren ...

Works

* ''Dialectics of the Present Epoch'' (Novosti, n.d.) * ''Contra la sociología vulgar en la teoría literaria'' (1936) * ''Dialéctica materialista'' (1937) * ''Problemas de la Estética de Plejanov'' (1939) * ''El método dialéctico marxista'' (1951) * ''Principios de la lógica dialéctica'' (1960) * ''Lenin y la dialéctica'' (1963) * ''Teoría leninista del conocimiento'' (1965) * ''Dialéctica de El Capital de Marx'' (1967) *
A Dictionary of Philosophy
', written with

Pavel Yudin Pavel Fyodorovich Yudin (russian: Павел Фёдорович Юдин; – 10 April 1968) was a Soviet philosopher and communist party official specialising in the fields of culture and sociology, and later a diplomat. Biography Born in to a ...

(

Progress Publishers Progress Publishers was a Moscow-based Soviet publisher founded in 1931. Publishing program Progress Publishers published books in a variety of languages: Russian, English, and many other European and Asian languages. They issued many scientific b ...

, 1967)

Awards

Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ...

* Científico de Honor de la RSFSR (1966)

References

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