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Alexander Moiseyevich Piatigorsky | |
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| Александр Моисеевич Пятигорский | |
 Alexander Piatigorsky in 2009 | |
| Born | 30 January 1929 |
| Died | 25 October 2009 (aged 80) London, England |
| Era | Contemporary |
| School | Analytic |
Main interests | South Asian philosophy and culture, semiotics |
Alexander Moiseyevich Piatigorsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Моисе́евич Пятиго́рский; 30 January 1929 – 25 October 2009) was a Soviet dissident,[1] 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."[2] On Russian television stations he was mourned as "the greatest Russian philosopher."[3]
- ^ Chernyaev, Anatoly (December 2014). "Continuity and succession in contemporary Russian philosophy". Studies in East European Thought. 66 (3): 263–276. doi:10.1007/s11212-014-9213-2. S2CID 143554391.
- ^ Parfitt, Tudor (5 January 2010). "Alexander Piatigorsky obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ [1] School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Alumni Online Community News. What's New. "Remembering 'the Greatest Russian Philosopher'", December 2009.