Abstract

No sooner had I written these incantational words than I hesitated a bit, as if sensing the skeptical smirks of those who believe that they alone are the true guardians of the legacy of our great contemporary Aleksei Fedorovich Losev-an original thinker who said some things that others could not at the watershed between two epochs. A person who was persecuted for the greater part of his life but was never broken, and who drank from the cup of Gulag "reforging" under the "sun of Stalin's constitution," which proclaimed good for everyone but "especially unto them who are of the household of faith".