Remembering Albert Vasilyevich Sobolev (1936–2019)

The material is a memoir about Albert Vasilyevich Sobolev, with whom the author was familiar and friendly for more than half a century. The notes reflect the key features of A.V. Sobolev’s philosophical worldview and the problems that worried him throughout his creative career the existential and artistic principle in philosophical thought, the aesthetics of value and personal thinking, essayism, the poetics of philosophical text, personalistic knowledge, anti-scientism, personalistic cultural centrism. Memoir testimonies vividly reveal the contradictory, but consistent, creatively intense, thoughtful and heartfelt philosophical world of A.V. Sobolev. His creative work is revealed as an attempt to create a bias towards intelligent artistry in humanitarian knowledge. The essential part of the notes is devoted to the memories of friendly and creative relations between A.V. Sobolev and the author of the notes, S.M. Polovinkin, S.S. Khoruzhy.