Leonid Stolovich
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Leonid Naumovitsh Stolovich (Russian: Леонид Наумович Столович Estonian: Leonid Stolovitš) (*July 22, 1929 Leningrad) is a Russian – Estonian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy (1966), professor (1967). Stolovich graduated from the Leningrad University in 1952, from 1953 on he has been working in Tartu University, Estonia, from 1994 on as a ‘’professor emeritus’’. Above all, Stolovich has studied esthetics: its history, theories of esthetics and axiology. He is the author of more than forty books and 400 publications in 20 languages. During the Perestroika era, Stolovitsh took part in the pro-democracy movement (Popular Front of Estonia). Stolovich’s work “Pluralism in the Philosophy…” decovers 'systematic pluralism', a term coined by Stolovich, which means the unity of dialectical opposites pluralism and monism.
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- Beauty and Society (1969)
- The Essence of Esthetical Quality (1976)
- The Philosophy of Beauty (1980)
- Esthectics, Art, Play (1992)
- Life-Creation-Man: the Function of the Creative Activities (1985) (Жижнь.Творчество.Человек: функции художественной деятельности)
- Beauty.Goodness.Truth. A Study on the History of the Esthetical Axiology (Moscow, 1994) (Красота.Добро.Истина. Очерк истории эстетической аксиологии)
- Pluralism in the Philosophy and the Philosophy of Pluralism (2005)
[edit] References
- Eesti Entsüklopeedia, VIII kd, sub Stolovitš
