Dialectics of the ideal : Evald Ilyenkov and creative Soviet Marxism / edited by Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levant, Alex.

Oittinen, Vesa, 1951-

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 60.

Historical Materialism Book Series, 1570-1522 ; Volume 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Marxist.

Philosophy, Russian--20th century.

Philosophy, Russian.

Ilʹenkov, Ė. V. (Ėvalʹd Vasilʹevich).

Ilʹenkov, Ė. V.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, which should be of interest to contemporary 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 This volume features Levant’s translation of Ilyenkov’s Dialectics of the Ideal (2009), which remained unpublished until thirty years after the author’s tragic suicide in 1979. Contributors include: Evald Ilyenkov, Tarja Knuuttila, Alex Levant, Andrey Maidansky, Vesa Oittinen, Paula Rauhala, and Birger Siebert.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

E.V. Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism: Introduction to Dialectics of the Ideal / Alex Levant

Dialectics of the Ideal / Evald Ilyenkov

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

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

Bibliography of Evald Ilyenkov’s Works

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-24692-4

OCLC:

868284425

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004246928 DOI