Эвальд Васильевич Ильенков

The book is dedicated to the outstanding philosopher - Evald Vasilievich Ilyenkov and is a collective attempt to give a conceptual analysis and characterization of the main directions, ideas and problems of his creative heritage. Touching upon various spheres of philosophical knowledge (theory and methodology of cognition, dialectical logic, social philosophy, psychology, etc.), the authors try to determine the personal originality of Ilyenkov's "school of thought" in the context and framework of world philosophy. Consciousness, understood as conscious being, acts and is studied as the general idea and line of development of all classical philosophy from Parmenides and Heraclitus to Hegel and Marx.