Valery Alexeyevich Bossenko

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Valery Bosenko

Valeri Alexejewitsch Bossenko ( Russian Валерий Алексеевич Босенко , Ukrainian Валерій Олексійович Босенко Valery Oleksijowytsch Bossenko , * 1. January 1927 in Mariupol , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ; † 19th March 2007 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Soviet Marxist philosopher , of the theory of materialistic dialectic .

Career

Bosenko was born in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. During World War II , Bosenko remained in the occupation zone, actively helped the Red Army and was seriously injured. In 1946 he began studying at the philosophical faculty of the Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev , where he worked after graduation first as an assistant, then as a lecturer and professor. Bosenko obtained his doctorate in 1956 with a thesis on the dialectic of continuity and discontinuity in movement. The supervisor of his doctoral thesis was the Soviet philosopher Pawel Kopnin . In 1968 Bosenko completed his habilitation with a thesis on "Dialectics as the theory of development".

From 1998 to 2002 he worked at the Department of Philosophy at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute . Bosenko's book “Educating the Educator” (1989), which was reprinted in Ukraine in 2004, became well known among philosophers, educators and a wide range of readers. Bosenko paid a lot of attention to popularizing the ideas of materialist dialectics in philosophical journalism. His articles were published in the newspapers " Komsomolskaya Pravda ", "Poisk", in the magazines "Communist", "Marxism and Modernity". Bosenko was the supervisor of the doctoral thesis of the theorist of Soviet aesthetics Anatoly Kanarski .

Valery Bosenko made a contribution to the preservation and development of the dialectical Marxist tradition both during the Soviet era and after the collapse of the Soviet Union . His works “Dialectics as Theory of Development” and “Current Problems of Dialectical Materialism” have become classics and were reissued in 2001 under the common title “General Theory of Development”. A young Polish Marxist Mikolaj Sagorski claims that the books «General Theory of Development» by Bosenko and «Dialectic of the Aesthetic Process» by his successor Kanarski, which represent a Marxist rethinking of Hegel's «Science of Logic», made an important contribution to theoretical thought and encouraged Ukraine to become a «theoretical nation».

Bosenko developed a new teaching method, the Problem Groups Method, which was and is actively used by his students and successors. Some of Bosenko's students and successors influenced the activities of a number of public organizations such as the All-Ukrainian Workers' Union, the Marxist Organization, the newspaper “Arbeiterklasse” (until 2004), the Communist website, which is written in Russian, English, Spanish and Arabic. ru and the magazines "Gegen die Strömung" and "Propaganda".

family

Bosenko's wife Leonida Sergeewna Gorbatowa worked at the Chair of Ethics and Aesthetics at the Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev. She received her PhD in philosophy and wrote the book "Moral Principles of Socialist Society" which is an attempt to look at the problems of morality from the perspective of materialist dialectics. Bosenko's daughter, Eugenia Valerievna Bosenko, worked at the Department of Philosophy at the Kiev Agricultural University. She is the author of numerous journalistic articles and has illustrated various books. Among the books she has illustrated is Bosenko's book "Educating the Educator". Bosenko's son, Alexei Valeryevich Bosenko, is a well-known philosopher in Ukraine. He completed his habilitation in philosophy and has written numerous books on the problems of modern art.

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SURNAME Bossenko, Valery Alexeyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Босенко, Валерий Алексеевич (Russian); Босенко, Валерій Олексійович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet Marxist philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariupol , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2007
Place of death Kiev , Ukraine