Philosopher
Gustav Shpet
Overview
Gustav Gustavovich Shpet (Russian: Густа́в Густа́вович Шпет; April 7 [O.S. March 26] 1879, Kiev, Russian Empire – November 16, 1937, Tomsk, Russian SFSR) was a Russian philosopher, historian of philosophy, psychologist, art theoretician, and interpreter of German and Polish descent. He knew 17 languages.
He was a student of a well-known Russian psychologist and philosopher George Chelpanov, a follower of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, who introduced Husserlian phenomenology to Russia, modifying the phenomenology which he found in Husserl. Shpet was a Vice president of the Russian State Academy of Arts in Moscow (1923—1929). Shpet is an author of many books, including his famous A View on the History of Russian philosophy (Russian: Очерк развития русской философии; in 2 vols.) and The Hermeneutics and its problems (Russian: Герменевтика и её проблемы).
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Ideas Gustav Shpet discusses
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Great Purge
- Moscow
- Marxism
- Russian Empire
- Platonism
- Religion
- Orthodoxy
- Austria-Hungary
- The Phenomenology of Spirit
- Phenomenology (philosophy)
- Edmund Husserl
Place in the tradition
Part of Russian philosophy.