Pawel Solomonowitsch Yushkewitsch

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Pawel Solomonowitsch Juschkewitsch , Russian Павел Соломонович Юшкевич (born June 29, 1873 in Odessa ; † December 6, 1945 in Moscow ) was a Russian philosopher, translator of philosophical works and social democrat.

Yushkevich was a representative of positivism and pragmatism. He described his philosophical position as empirical symbolism. In his book Materialism and Empirio-Criticism , Vladimir Lenin criticized Yushkevich's views, among others.

The mathematician Adolf Pawlowitsch Yuschkewitsch was his son.

Fonts (Russian)

  • "On the materialistic conception of history" (1907)
  • "The pillars of philosophical orthodoxy" (1907)
  • "Materialism and Critical Realism" (1908)
  • "Weltanschauung and Weltanschauungen" (1912)
  • "On the essence of philosophy" (1921)
personal data
SURNAME Yushkewitsch, Pawel Solomonowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Юшкевич, Павел Соломонович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian philosopher, translator of philosophical works and social democrat
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1945
Place of death Moscow