The Foreword to the Publication of the new Fragment of A.F. Losev’s “Addition” to “Dialectics of Myth”: [The Shape of Anarchy]

Abstract

This publication presents a small (newly identifi ed) fragment from “Addition” to the
book of A.F. Losev “Dialectics of Myth” (1930). In “Addition” the author offered historical
and philosophical considerations of the major mythological systems (“relative mythologies”),
distinguished on the dominating type of the social and economic relations. He also predicted
public evolution from capitalism to socialism and, further, to anarchism (“absolute anarchy”).
This very fragment of “Addition” is devoted to the description of the specifi c shape of the future
society in which “everything up to the last depth is the person, in the person, for the person”.