Gustav Shpet

Who was Gustav Shpet?

Gustav Gustavovich Shpet was a Ukrainian and Russian philosopher, psychologist, art theoretician, and interpreter. He was a follower of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and introduced Husserlian phenomenology to Russia, modifying the phenomenology which he found in Husserl.

As a thinker, he was thoroughly grounded in Russian religious thought of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His philosophy combined Husserl's analysis of the structure of consciousness with Platonism of Orthodoxy, the doctrine of incarnation, and veneration of matter.