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Alexander Piatigorsky was born on 30 January, 1929 in Moscow, Soviet Union, is a Russian philosopher. Discover Alexander Piatigorsky's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 30 January 1929
Birthday 30 January
Birthplace Moscow, Soviet Union
Date of death 25 October, 2009
Died Place London, England
Nationality Russia

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1929

Alexander Moiseyevich Piatigorsky (Алекса́ндр Моисе́евич Пятиго́рский; 30 January 1929 – 25 October 2009) was a Soviet dissident, Russian philosopher, scholar of Indian philosophy and culture, historian, philologist, semiotician, writer.

Well-versed in the study of language, he knew Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali, Tibetan, German, Russian, French, Italian and English.

In an obituary appearing in the English-language newspaper The Guardian, he was cited as "a man who was widely considered to be one of the more significant thinkers of the age and Russia's greatest philosopher."

On Russian television stations he was mourned as "the greatest Russian philosopher."

Piatigorsky was born in Moscow.

His father, Moshe, an engineer and lecturer at the Stalin metallurgical college was sent to a weapons production facility in the Urals (city of Nizhny Tagil) at the outbreak of World War II, where he took up a post as chief engineer in weapons production.

Alexander worked in the plant during the war.

Being a poor student of mathematics, chemistry and physics, Alexander was expelled from school twice, but at this time he learned Latin and some other languages out of sheer curiosity.

He was a voracious reader, and read just about everything he could get his hands on.

1951

At Moscow State University he studied philosophy, graduating in 1951.

He moved to Stalingrad where he taught high-school history before returning to Moscow to join the Institute of Oriental Studies as "a specialist in Tamil languages and Hindu studies."

1960

He compiled the first Russian–Tamil dictionary in 1960.

1963

In 1963, influenced by Juri Lotman who was working in Tartu University, he was involved with Lotman, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Vladimir Toporov and others, in the establishment of Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School.

The School developed the theoretical foundations and nomenclature for a new approach in semiotics for the study of society, consciousness and culture.

1964

In 1964, Piatigorsky's friend, poet Joseph Brodsky, was handed down a five-year sentence of internal exile.

The following year, in support of the writers Yuli Daniel and Andrey Sinyavsky, Piatigorsky with other Russian intellectuals:

""...signed a letter deploring the violation of the writers' human rights, and later took part in the first human rights demonstration in Pushkin Square.""

His investigations and theoretical observations of the role played by thinking and philosophy in ancient South Asian culture and society were viewed with suspicion by some as a subtly indirect way of attacking the Soviet system.

Knowing themselves to be likely targets of KGB surveillance, he and his fellow Indologists would gather in a room of the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies where they would enter into "fiery debates... in Sanskrit."

1968

He was expelled from the Oriental Institute in 1968.

Piatigorsky continued to lecture at the University of Moscow.

He pursued his Indological investigations, increasingly dealing with Buddhist thought, and continued with more general work on the metatheory of consciousness, psychology, semiotics and philosophy in general, while collaborating with various Russian philosophers and thinkers outside of Indology.

Chief among them was his close friend, philosopher Merab Mamardashvili.

Influenced by German Idealism, Mamardashvili was a Deputy Editor of the leading journal, Voprosy Filosofii ("Problems of Philosophy"), and was also a principal representative of the so-called "Moscow School of Methodology."

Participants in the Moscow School seminars included: Alexander Zinoviev, Evald Ilyenkov, Georgy Shchedrovitsky, Boris Grushin, Lefebvre, and others.

The School is believed by some to be the source of the most important developments in philosophy in the post-War period, rivaling anything done in the Western analytical tradition.

The School remains virtually unknown in the West because its members were forced to operate behind the "Iron Curtain" in a context of severely reduced operational visibility and Soviet-style repression.

One of his friends was also an indologist and culture theoretician David Zilberman, who in 1968–1972 was a postgraduate student working under prof. Yuri Levada.

Together they used to discuss problems of consciousness development.

1972

In 1972, Piatigorsky's Buddhist teacher Dandaron was arrested by Soviet authorities.

A number of Dandaron's students were imprisoned.

1974

Dandaron was sent to a Soviet labor camp where he perished in 1974.

Written in the two years before Piatigorsky left the Soviet Union for Britain in 1974, the manuscript was spirited out of the country by the British-Czech social philosopher Ernest Gellner.

It is worth noticing that the text was written in a deteriorating situation of renewed political repression of the Russian intelligentsia by the Soviet state.

1977

After they both migrated they kept friendship and continued research co-operation till Zilberman's death in July 1977.

1982

During the same period, Mamardashvili and Piatigorsky co-authored: "Symbol and Consciousness: Metaphysical Discussion of Consciousness, Symbolism and Language" Jerusalem (1982), in Russian.

This abstract and complex text, combining Western and Eastern terms, is considered by some to be the most significant philosophical work written in the Russian language.

The text:

""...explores the theory of consciousness, and is a kind of philosophical conversation between [Mamardashvili and Piatigorsky], from the respective perspectives of Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology and the Buddhist School of Vijnanavada.""

2002

Piatigorsky's book" Myshlenie i nablyudenie" (Thinking and Observation), published in Riga in 2002, was dedicated to David Zilberman and included an explicit confession of Zilberman's influence on the author's thought.