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The Scholar and the “Wolfhound Era”: The Fate of Ivan E. Orlov's Ideas in Logic, Philosophy, and Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2003

Valentin A. Bazhanov
Valentin A. Bazhanov
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Department of Philosophy, Ulyanovsk State University, Russia
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Abstract

Argument

The life and work of the Russian scholar Ivan E. Orlov (September 1, 1886 – October 13, 1936) is described here in detail for the first time. Orlov is well known as one of the pioneers of relevant logic, but he was also interested in a wide variety of other topics including philosophy, chemistry, and music theory. This article shows that the sociopolitical climate of the1920s and 1930s exerted a significant influence on the style and content of Orlov's work. It theorizes that this climate determined to a considerable degree the evolution of Orlov's interests and also his fate.

The Wolfhound Era hurls itself against my shoulders,But I am not by nature a wolf.Osip Mandel'shtam (1931)

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Science in Context , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 535 - 550
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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