Alexis Losev et le néo-kantisme de Marburg

Myth, as existence itself, and dialectics, as a way of comprehending existence, are the two elements of A. Losev’s philosophy in which a point of intersection with the philosophical constructions of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism appears. Criticizing Neo-Kantian philosophers for their one-sided interpretation of ideas the Russian philosopher resorts to E. Husserl’s phenomenology and to the eidetic essence of an idea that he discovered. In contrast to the logical, the eidetic mainly deals with intuitive side of the idea. Only together, and not in separation, can the eidetic and the logical of the idea express the essence as it is. But for this, according to A. Losev, the eidetic and the logical of the idea should not be considered one-sidedly, but dialectically. Losev makes an attempt at reconstructing ancient philosophy in order to demonstrate the existence of a different line - the line of the Christian continuation of Hellenic wisdom. For Platonism, with its mythology and dialectics, does not have its further realization in the transcendentalism of Kant and Cohen, who repudiated real existence; or in the phenomenology of Husserl’s who, likewise, did not come close to existence; but in Neo-Platonism and, later on, in the apophaticism of Dionysius the Areopagite, and in formulation of the essence of Trinity and Christ of the Church Fathers.