Development of the philosophy in the Ukrainian SSR: Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, 1968, 526 p.

The collective monograph covers the history of philosophy as of an academic discipline in Ukraine during the almost five decades of the Soviet Union's existence. The history of the development of particular philosophical disciplines is examined ( division according to the disciplinary structure of Soviet academic philosophy of the post-war era). The historical account is supplemented with remarks on the systematic nature of these disciplines and their place and status in the system of philosophical knowledge. The history of Marxist philosophy in Ukraine before 1917 is also considered. In addition, the monograph provides a separate article on the history of philosophical institutions in Ukraine in the 1920-1960s, which may be of interest to contemporary researchers of the history of Ukrainian philosophy of the relevant periods.

CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
Historico-philosophical knowledge and the grounds for its periodisation
Philosophical system and its mediation
Philosophical and concrete-scientific knowledge. Philosophy and politics
National and international in the history of philosophy
From the history of the spread of Marxist philosophy in Ukraine (before 1917)

II. DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
The key periods of development of dialectical materialism in Soviet Ukraine
Dialectical materialism as a science and its mediations
Knowing and transformation of reality by man
Laws and categories of dialectical materialism

III. HISTORICAL MATERIALISM
The object of historical materialism
Development of society as a natural-historical process
Socialist revolution, state and dictatorship of the proletariat
Social changes in soviet society

IV. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Development of the theory of the history of philosophy as a science
Coverage of philosophical and sociological views of Ukrainian thinkers of the XVII – XVIII centuries.
Philosophy of Enlightenment in Ukraine
Study of philosophical and sociological views of Ukrainian revolutionary democrats
Study of the philosophy and sociology of Russian thinkers
Study of the history of the Marxist-Leninist philosophy

V. LOGIC

VI. AESTHETICS
Historical and Methodological Problems of the Development of Marxist-Leninist Aesthetics in Ukraine
The essence of the aesthetic. Categories of aesthetics

VII. PSYCHOLOGY
Reflexological theory of the psyche
Consciousness as an object of psychological studies
Problems of the genesis of human cognitive activity in psychology

VIII. DIALECTICO-MATERIALISTIC IDEAS IN BIOLOGY
Some general methodological issues
Methodological issues of Darwinism and genetics
Philosophical aspect of the problem of aging and longevity

IX. ATHEISM

X. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTIONS IN UKRAINE DURING 1920-1966

SUMMARY