Mikhail Fedotovich Ovsyannikov was a Soviet

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 philosopher and academic who concentrated on in-depth study of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, one of the creators of German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality as a whole revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism.Hegel developed a comprehensive...

. Ovsyannikov was head of the Philosophy Department at Moscow State University

Moscow State University

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 from 1968 to 1974.

Biography

Ovsyannikov was born 21 November 1915 in the settlement of Puzachi in the Imperial Russian

Russian Empire

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 Kursk Governorate (presently in Kursk Oblast

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). He completed a degree at V.I. Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical University in 1939, subsequently earning a Kandidat nauk (primary-level doctoral degree) in 1943 for a dissertation titled "The Fate of Art in the Capitalist Milieu of Hegel and Balzac" («Судьба искусства в капиталистическом обществе у Гегеля и Бальзака»). In 1961 he earned the academic title Doktor nauk

Doktor nauk

Doktor nauk is a higher doctoral degree, the second and the highest post-graduate academic degree in the Soviet Union, Russia and in many post-Soviet states. Sometimes referred to as Dr. Hab. The prerequisite is the first degree, Kandidat nauk which is informally regarded equivalent to Ph.D....

(higher-level doctoral degree) for The Philosophy of Hegel, coming to be exceptionally regarded as a specialist on the critical analysis of Hegel's works.

From 1960, Ovsyannikov directed Marxist research

Marxist philosophy

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in aesthetics at Moscow State; he chaired the philosophy department from 1960 to 1974, teaching the history of philosophy and courses on philosophical developments outside the Soviet Union. He was the general editor of Moscow State University's philosophy journal from 1969 to 1983.

Major works

• Философия Гегеля (1959)
• Гегель (1971)
• Проблемы художественного творчества (1975)
• История эстетической мысли (1983)

External links

• “The Artistic Image” (1969)