Alexander Pigalev was born into the family of employees in 1952 in Volgograd (former Stalingrad). In 1969 he entered Gorky State University. His graduate thesis was dedicated to the philosophical problems of natural sciences. On graduating from the university in 1974 he filled the position of the lecturer of the department of philosophy at Gorky State University. In 1976 he began his post-graduate course in the field of philosophy at Moscow State University. The master's degree was conferred on him on the basis of the defense of the thesis "The Ideological Foundations of the Theoretical Knowledge in Natural Sciences" at Moscow State University. In 1979 Alexander Pigalev filled the position of the lecturer of the department of philosophy at Volgograd State Polytechnic Institute. Since 1983 Alexander Pigalev is affiliated with Volgograd State University, where at first he filled the position of assistant professor. In 1993 the doctor's degree was conferred on him on the basis of the defense of the thesis "The Nihilism and the Problem of Crisis of Culture in Western Philosophy". The defense of the thesis took place at the Institute of Philosophy in Moscow. Since 1993 Alexander Pigalev fills the positions of the full professor and the head of the department of philosophy of culture and history of philosophy. He delivers general courses of lectures on the philosophy of culture and the history of philosophy. He is also lecturing on some special problems of philosophy of culture and the history of philosophy (being and thinking in German classical philosophy, the problem of metaphysics in the philosophy of M.Heidegger, language and culture, the philosophy of dialogue, Russian religious philosophy of the "Silver Age"). Alexander Pigalev is the scientific supervisor of post-graduate students (master's degree). Since 2003 he is also the scientific supervisor of doctoral candidates. The total number of Professor Pigalev's articles and books is above 130. His works were published in Germany, Great Britain, USA and some other countries. Among Alexander Pigalev's works one can select the books "The Philosophical Nihilism and the Crisis of Culture" (Saratov: The Saratov State University Press, 1991), "Culture as Totality: (Methodological aspects)" (Volgograd: The Volgograd State University Press, 2001), "The Spectral Reality of Culture: (The Fetishism and the Apparency of an Invisibility)" (Volgograd: The Volgograd State University Press, 2003). Professor Pigalev is also known as the authoritative translator of the philosophical texts from English, French and German into Russian. Among his translations one can name the books: Rosenstock-Huessy E. "God Makes Us Speak" (Moscow: Canon+, 1998); Rosenstock-Huessy E. "The Speech of Humankind: Selected Writings" (Moscow; St. Petersburg: The University Book, 2000). Alexander Pigalev's textbook "The Philosophy of Culture" (Volgograd: The Volgograd State University Press, 1995) has run into already six editions and still enjoys wide popularity.

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