Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valentin Ferdinandovich Asmus (1894 - 1975) was a Russian philosopher. He was one of the small group who continued the classical European philosophical tradition through the early Soviet times. He was an independent thinker and unorthodox Marxist, with interests in the history of philosophy and aesthetics. He graduated from Kiev University in 1919, then moved to Moscow in 1927. At this period he attacked the views of William James. In the mid-1920s, he was a theorist of literary Constructivism.