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PublisherHistorical Materialism

ISBN-101608464148

ISBN-139781608464142

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Book TitleDialectics of the Ideal : Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism

Number of Pages221 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicSocial, History & Surveys / Modern, Political, Social Psychology

IllustratorYes

GenrePhilosophy, Psychology

AuthorVesa Oittinen

Book SeriesHistorical Materialism Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight13.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal335.43

Table Of ContentForeword - Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen I. DIALECTICS OF THE IDEAL E.V. Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism: Introduction to Dialectics of the Ideal, Alex Levant Dialectics of the Ideal (2009), Evald Ilyenkov II. CONTEXTS Ilyenkov in the Context of Soviet Philosophical Culture: An Interview with Sergey Mareev, Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen Prospects for a Cultural-Historical Psychology of Intelligence, Birger Siebert Evald Ilyenkov, the Soviet Spinozist, Vesa Oittinen III. COMMENTARIES Reality of the Ideal, Andrey Maidansky Metamorphoses of Meaning: The Concept of the Ideal from a Semiotic Perspective, Tarja Knuuttila Evald Ilyenkov's Dialectics of Abstract and Concrete and the Recent Value-Form Debate, Vesa Oittinen and Paula Rauhala Emancipating Open Marxism: E.V. Ilyenkov's Post-Cartesian Anti-Dualism, Alex Levant IV. SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL Published works by Ilyenkov References

SynopsisActivity Theory and 'Creative' Soviet-Marxism are still overlocked by contemporary theorists. This volume is a correction to this tragic omission., Dialectics of the Ideal provides a window into the subterranean tradition of 'creative' Soviet Marxism, which developed on the margins of the Soviet academy and remains largely outside the orbit of contemporary theory. With his 'activity approach', E.V. Ilyenkov, its principal figure in the post-Stalin period, makes a substantial contribution toward an anti-reductionist Marxist theory of the subject., In Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism Levant and Oittinen provide a window into the subterranean tradition of creative' Soviet Marxism, which developed on the margins of the Soviet academe and remains largely outside the orbit of contemporary theory in the West. With his activity approach', E.V. Ilyenkov, its principal figure in the post-Stalin period, makes a substantial contribution toward an anti-reductionist Marxist theory of the subject. This highly original approach should be of interest to theorists who seek to avoid economic and cultural reductionism as well as the malaise of postmodern relativism. This volume features Levant's translation of Ilyenkov's Dialectics of the Ideal (2009), which remained unpublished until thirty years after the author's tragic suicide in 1979, as well as additional reflections and context by contemporary scholars., In Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism Levant and Oittinen provide a window into the subterranean tradition of 'creative' Soviet Marxism, which developed on the margins of the Soviet academe and remains largely outside the orbit of contemporary theory in the West. With his 'activity approach', E.V. Ilyenkov, its principal figure in the post-Stalin period, makes a substantial contribution toward an anti-reductionist Marxist theory of the subject. This highly original approach should be of interest to theorists who seek to avoid economic and cultural reductionism as well as the malaise of postmodern relativism. This volume features Levant's translation of Ilyenkov's Dialectics of the Ideal (2009), which remained unpublished until thirty years after the author's tragic suicide in 1979, as well as additional reflections and context by contemporary scholars.

LC Classification NumberB4249.I374