Alexander Pustovit

Alexander Pustovit is a music lover, cultural historian and lecturer. In his lectures and books he presents European culture as a single whole in which music, literature, philosophy and science explain one another.

He is the author of the textbooks “History of European Culture”, “Ethics and Aesthetics” and “Introduction to Logic”, the monograph “Pushkin and the Western European Philosophical Tradition”, and “Glass Bead Games”, a book of fantasies in the manner of Hermann Hesse. His books can be downloaded from this site, and his lecture courses can be watched on YouTube.

A theoretical physicist by training, he graduated from Kyiv University and defended his dissertation, then changed profession in the early 1990s and became a teacher. He taught at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and was a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP). He also studied piano at the Kyiv People’s Conservatory and performed as part of a piano duo.