Gustav Shpet's article "Theater as Art," which we here publish, gives an idea of one facet of his creativity. Shpet devoted considerable attention to the art of the theater as part of his studies of a broad range of problems of aesthetics. It should be mentioned that he himself took an active part in the life of the theater: he was a member of the Artistic Council of the Moscow Art Theater [MKhAT]; he made a stage adaptation of the text (...) of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar for the Malyi Theater; and he translated Dumas's play "The Lady of the Camellias" for production in the Meyerhold State Theater. (shrink)

Marxist writings on the history of philosophy have always approached Feuerbach's philosophy of man as the connecting link between the philosophy of Hegel and the materialist understanding of history developed in the works of Marx and Engels.

The recently published story by D. Granin entitled Aurochs [Zubr] presents the recollections of N. V. Timofeev-Resovskii on Moscow University in the first years after the revolution. In his account, an interesting philosophical circle was active there at the time: "The logical and philosophical circle was headed by Gustav Gustavovich Shpet, who unsettled minds with unprecedented paradoxes and shook the most unshakeable foundations of this world, and Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, a great mathematician who was able to find a philosophical meaning (...) in mathematics." V. Kaverin also tells about the tremendous impression made on him by a lecture Shpet gave in 1919 at the Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University. (shrink)