Teodor Oizerman

Teodor Oizerman
Oizerman in 2012
Born14 May [O.S. 1 May] 1914
Died25 March 2017(2017-03-25) (aged 102)
Moscow, Russia
Education
EducationMoscow State University (1938)
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionSoviet philosophy
Russian philosophy
Main interests
History of Western and Marxist philosophy

Teodor Ilyich Oizerman (Russian: Теодор Ильич Ойзерман; 14 May [O.S. 1 May] 1914 – 25 March 2017) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher and academician.

Biography

Oizerman was born in Petrovirivka into a Jewish family. His parents were teachers. During World War II, he served in the Red Army. Oizerman was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1981 until his death. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena in 1979 and the USSR State Prize in 1983. In 1979, Oizerman was awarded the Plekhanov prize for the monograph The Main Trends in Philosophy. He also served on the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Public.

Following the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union, Oizerman moved towards social democratic and anti-Leninist positions. He viewed Vladimir Lenin's interpretation and application of the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the Russian Revolution as incorrect, and believed Lenin's view led towards oligarchy rather than the victorious establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Oizerman died on 25 March 2017 in Moscow at the age of 102.

Works

Oizerman was a prolific author. Below is a partial list of his monographs.

References

  1. ↑ http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_biography/94770/Ойзерман, passim
  2. ↑ The Plekhanov prize (in Russian)
    The first edition of this book was out in 1971. The second edition published in 1984 was translated into English in 1988.
  3. ↑ ISBN 3-7186-5740-6 Russian Antisemitism, Pamyat and the Demonology of Zionism (Studies in Antisemitism) by William Korey
  4. ↑ Luther, Sara Fletcher, John J. Neumaier, Howard Lee Parsons, eds. Diverse Perspectives on Marxist Philosophy: East and West. Issue 53 of Contributions in Philosophy. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995. ISBN 0-313-29396-1, ISBN 978-0-313-29396-2. P. 7.
  5. ↑ Staff (25 March 2017). Скончался философ Теодор Ойзерман (in Russian). gorky.media. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
Works available online (in English)