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The investigations of Aza A. Takho-Godi, devoted to the evolution of concepts and terms in European culture, were ahead of their time and, as it turns out today, paved the way for historical semantics, which turned out to be a kind of independent version of the “history of concepts”: a direction of humanitarian thought aimed at identifying cultural, social, and political functions concepts in their historical dynamics and in relation to a wide field of cultural interactions of a particular era. The impressive results of “historical semantics” in the version of Takho-Godi are connected not only with the masterful and strictly substantiated identification of the developing conceptual core of lexemes, not only with the penetrating intuitions of the living word, but also with the vision of an absolute spiritual context in which semantic worlds are driven not by mechanical causality and not by historical chance, but by a kind of teleology.
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See Losev’s comprehensive biography (Takho-Godi 2007).
1) Antichnaia gimnografiia: zhanr i stilˋ; 2) Gimnografiia Procla i ee lichnostnoe nachalo; 3) Gimnograficheskie i eˋnkomiasticheskie tendentcii v Areopagitskom traktate “O Bozhestvennyˋkh imenakh”. (1) Ancient hymnography: genre and style; 2) Proclus’ hymnography and its personalistic aspect; 3) Hymnographic and encomiastic tendencies in Pseudo-Dionysius’ Divine names.) Cit. ex. (Takho-Godi 2008).
See Eˋsteticheskie tendentcii v kommentariiakh Procla k platonovskomu “Timeiu” (Aesthetic tendencies in Proclus’ commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus) (Takho-Godi and Losev 1999, pp. 613–634).
For Losev’s idea of “dialectical integration” of Hegel, Schelling and Spengler see (Losev 1993, pp. 59–64, 704–705.)
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Dobrokhotov, A.L. Aza A. Takho-Godi’s contribution to the history of ideas and concepts. Stud East Eur Thought 75, 1–8 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11212-022-09538-2
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