Leonid Stolovich
Leonid Naumovich Stolovich (Russian: Леони́д Нау́мович Столович; Estonian: Leonid Stolovitš; July 22, 1929, Leningrad – November 4, 2013, Tartu) was a Russian-Estonian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy (1966) and professor (1967).[1] Stolovich graduated from the Leningrad University in 1952, from 1953 on he worked at Tartu University, Estonia, from 1994 on as a professor emeritus. Above all, Stolovich studied esthetics: its history, theories of esthetics and axiology. He is the author of more than forty books and 400 publications in 20 languages.
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During the Perestroika era, Stolovich 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.
See also
Bibliography
- 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) (Жизнь. 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)
References
- Delfi. "Скончался профессор Тартуского университета Леонид Столович - Delfi". Rus.delfi.ee. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
- Eesti Entsüklopeedia, VIII kd, sub Stolovitš