Raya Dunayevskaya belongs to the philosophical record as a figure whose arguments outlasted the disputes that prompted them.
The record lists Raya Dunayevskaya as American philosopher (1910-1987).
Raya Dunayevskaya was born at Yaryshiv in 1910. Her recorded nationality is United States.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy, social theory and social revolution.
Philosophy advances by objection: an argument matters if serious people spend years attacking it.
That the work was done from United States matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Raya Dunayevskaya died in 1987, aged 77. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Fields: philosophy, social theory and social revolution
