Losskii, N. O.

Obshchedostupnoe vvedenie v filosofiiu [A Popular Introduction to Philosophy]

Frankfurt am Main: Posev, 1956. Item #1422

220, [2] pages: frontispiece portrait; 24 cm. Original publisher's wrappers. Small chips to spine and light wear to cover.

First edition, published during the author’s lifetime. This accessible introduction by Nikolai Onufrievich Losskii (1870–1965), a leading figure in Russian religious philosophy and one of the founders of Russian intuitionism, outlines his integral worldview in relation to classical and contemporary philosophical systems. Expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922, Losskii taught in Prague, Paris, and later in New York. The text draws from his earlier epistemological works, notably Vvedenie v filosofiiu (1924) and Tipy mirovozzrenii (1930), while addressing mid-20th-century developments such as logical positivism and American neorealism. The work serves both as a survey of major schools of thought and a concise expression of the author’s own philosophical synthesis.

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