Alexey Losev belongs to a cohort of recent classical philosophers. His creative heritage is an example of the multifaceted work of a great thinker.
September 23, 1893 in the city of Novocherkassk in the family of a simple Cossack and the daughter of a clergyman was born a boy Aleksey, in the future a philosopher, philologist and representative of Soviet culture.
Childhood and youth
Alexey Losev studied at the gymnasium, which he subsequently graduated with good grades and later went to enroll in philology in Moscow. After graduation, he remained at the Department of Philology and prepared to become a professor of science. At this time, he attended meetings of psychologists and philosophers, where he met many prominent figures of that time.
Adult biography
For some reason, Alexei Fedorovich was not allowed to teach philosophy, so he went to work at the Department of Classical Philology. A talented scientist worked at various universities, such as Nizhny Novgorod University, Moscow Conservatory, and the State Academy of Art Sciences.
In 1922, Alexei Losev married Valentina Sokolova, who took the name of her husband. After seven years of personal love, when persecution of the church escalated, Losev secretly tonsured monks.
Alexey Fedorovich actively studied philosophy, in particular the aesthetics of words and symbols, as well as the philosophy of the name. As part of his research in 1930, he wrote a book in which he rejected dialectical materialism and the ideas of Marxists. For this, he and his wife were arrested, Alexei was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and Valentine - to five.
With the help of Ekaterina Peshkova, Loseva was released after 2 years of her imprisonment. After this, Alexei, learning from the mistakes of the past, became a supporter of Marxism and often quoted Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin in his works.
During the war, Alexei Fedorovich taught the history of philosophy at Moscow University, and since 1944 he was a professor at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. When Stalin died, the country breathed a sigh of relief, and Losev was no exception. He began to actively publish his work. Philosifus published more than 800 works, participated in writing encyclopedias.
In 1954, his wife Valentine died of an illness. Losev again married Aza Alibekovna, but their marriage was not love: being almost blind, Alexei Fedorovich needed a man who would officially represent him and, in general, help him live.
