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Book SynopsisLevant 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 Western contemporary theory. With his 'activity approach', E.V. Ilyenkov, Soviet Marxism's principal figure in the post-Stalin period, makes a substantial contribution toward an anti-reductionist Marxist theory of the subject, which will be of interest to contemporary theorists who seek to avoid economic and cultural reductionism as well as the malaise of postmodern relativism.
Table of ContentsForeword – 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
