DEBORIN (present. Loffe ) Abram Moiseevich [4 (16) June 1881, metro station Upino, Lithuania - March 8, 1963, Moscow] - Russian philosopher. After graduating from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bern (1908), he participates in the revolutionary movement. From 1903 a Social Democrat, in 1907–17 a Menshevik. After the October Revolution - the philosophizing ideologue of Bolshevism, will teach in the Communist University. Ya.M.Sverdlova and the Institute of Red Professorship. Works at the Institute of Karl Marx and F. Engels; in 1924–31 director of the Institute of Philosophy. In 1926–30, editor-in-chief of the journal Under the Banner of Marxism. From 1929 - academician, in 1935–45 - Member of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Edited by Deborin were published scientific publications of the classics of materialistic philosophy, the collection of Hegel's 15 tons. According to Deborin, dialectics as the science of universal connections and real world relations is applicable not only in socio-historical practice, but also in any area of ​​concrete scientific knowledge . As a general methodology of scientific research, materialistic dialectics is interpreted by Deborin as an ideology, obligatory for scientists, including natural scientists. In the 1920s. was the official philosopher of power in the 1930s. subjected to criticism as "Menshevik idealist." In the 1950s dealt mainly with the history of socio-political thought.

Writings:

1. Dialectical materialism. SPb., 1909;

2. Ludwig Feuerbach . Personality and worldview. M., 1923;

3. Hegel and dialectical materialism. - In the book: Hegel . Соч., Т. 1. М. –Л., 1929;

4. Dialectics and natural science. M. - L., 1930;

5. Philosophy and Marxism. M – L., 1930;

6. Introduction to the philosophy of dialectical materialism. M. - L., 1931;

7. Socio-political teachings of the new and modern times, vol. 1-3. M., 1958–67;

8. Philosophy and politics. M., 1961.

Deborin, Abram Moiseevich