Z.A. KAMENSKY - DISCOVERER OF THE FORGOTTEN PAGES OF HISTORY OF RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY
The article deals with the scientific heritage and creative way of the famous historian of Russian philosophy, a native of Lugansk Z. A. Kamensky. There are four aspects of the value of his scientific heritage: 1) active creative search for unexplored materials and scientific honesty in their analysis; 2) an active and independent life position, the absence of any conformism and the willingness to go to conflict with any officialdom for the sake of defending the truth; 3) the discovery of a whole “layer” of the history of Russian philosophy, almost not studied until 1917 and generally forgotten in Soviet times; 4) substantiation of the important methodological principle of “rational reconstruction”, applicable in various fields of historical research for the purpose of their new understanding.