Georgy Shchedrovitsky

Soviet philosopher (1929-1994)

In the history of thought, Georgy Shchedrovitsky is one of the names that keeps being returned to.

The record lists Georgy Shchedrovitsky as Soviet philosopher (1929-1994).

Georgy Shchedrovitsky was born at Moscow in 1929. His recorded nationality is Russia. He studied at Moscow University's Department of Philosophy.

Twentieth-century philosophy was marked by war, exile and ideology; many of its central figures wrote in flight or under censorship.

His academic posts were held at VNIITE.

The recorded fields of work are logic and linguistics.

The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.

That the work was done from Russia matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.

Georgy Shchedrovitsky died in 1994, aged 65. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.

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