Şeydabəy Məmmədovun tədqiqatlarında M.F.Axundzadə: Sovetlər dövrünün kontekstində tənqidi təhlil

Abstract

During the Soviet era, social sciences, especially philosophy, which was one of the most ideologically oriented fields, tried to follow the course of the ruling ideology. Ideologization has significantly undermined the objectivity of ongoing research in philosophy and the history of philosophy. In this sense, the studies of the Soviet historian of philosophy of the ХХ century, Sheydabek Mammadov, devoted to the analysis of the sociophilosophical views of Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh, is distinguished by its ideological character. Sheydabek Mammadov is trying to show Akhundzadeh the way he wants to see him. Instead of studying the legacy of Akhundzadeh, his research is more focused on modernization and presentation of the great enlightener in the ideological format of the Soviet era. Of course, the ideologically veiled research of Sheydabek Mammadov make exaggerations and distortions inevitable when analyzing Akhundzadeh‟s sociophilosophical views. In all the studies of Sheydabek Mammadov, Akhundzadeh is presented as a militant materialist and a consistent atheist, in the spirit of the Soviet era. Although Sheydabek Mammadov connects Akhundzadeh‟s enlightenment with the French enlightenment, but he does not explain in what issues and how these relations manifest themselves. He is content to mention the role of the French enlighteners in the formation of Akhundzadeh as a “materialist” and an “atheist”. He also does not talk about the subsequent development of the Enlightenment and its criticism in the XX century. However, in the modern era, such moments leave research conducted in Soviet times about representatives of Azerbaijani culture out of relevance. In this sense, constructive criticism of Soviet-era studies, which are an integral part of our philosophical heritage, is important. In the article, when studying the works of Sheydabek Mammadov about Akhundzadeh, this method was applied. Constructive criticism gives new relevance to the research conducted in various fields of philosophy in the Soviet era.