Download or read book Audacity of the Spirit written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audacity of the Spirit by A.F. Losev demonstrates the merits of the dialectical method to understand antiquity, history, culture and philosophy. The book is a guide to dialectics for beginners and a major philosopher’s summing-up of his reflections to a general audience. It is an English translation from the Russian original Дерзание духа (Politizdat Moskva, 1988), translated by Peter R. Weisensel and Vitali I. Betaneli.