ИСТИНА

The submitted work reconstructs for the first time, and to the fullest extent possible at present, the authorial conception of Losev’s famous book The Dialectics of Myth, which was destroyed by the order of the authorities and later became an excuse for the thinker’s arrest in 1930. The reconstruction is made on the basis of previously unknown fragments, discovered in 2001 – 2018 in various archives, of the so-called Addendum to ‘The Dialectics of Myth’, which was considered lost but which forms, as is now evident, a single complex with the text of The Dialectics of Myth, its second part in fact. The new expanded edition of Losev’s original work, which has already become a philosophical classic, required a cross-checking of the text against the preserved copy of the book in the RSL (the Russian State Library). A significant number of corrections to the main text have been made, and notes to it have been revised and clarified. The new edition makes it possible to fully comprehend the course of the author's thought and the task he set himself, namely, – not only to provide and substantiate the original theory of myth but also to present his own typology of the historical process from the well-defined religious and philosophical positions. Now it is for the reader to set to work on Losev’s philosophical justification of theism.

Издание научного труда "А.Ф. Лосев. Диалектика мифа. Дополнение к «Диалектике мифа» (новое академическое издание, исправленное и дополненное)"