HEGEL’S DIALECTICS IN THE WORK OF E. S. LINKOV

Abstract

The article analyzes the unique project of reconstructing Hegelian dialectics proposed by the Soviet philosopher E. S. Linkov. Amid the dominance of dogmatized dialectical materialism, which had reduced dialectics to a set of formal laws for external application in philosophy, Linkov’s approach represented a radical alternative. Central to his teaching is the principle of the identity of being and thinking, understood not as a given but as the result of the developing activity of the thinking subject, achieved through the method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete. The article systematizes Linkov’s critique of the key problems inherent in the approaches of Soviet philosophical dogmatism. The specificity of his speculative-logical project is revealed through a comparison with the more socially oriented dialectics of E. V. Ilyenkov. It is concluded that Linkov’s legacy, marginalized during the Soviet period due to its methodological foreignness to the official discourse, represents a rigorous model of philosophy as a science and remains relevant in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of thinking and reality.