{"product_id":"fundamental-problems-of-the-sociology-of-thinking-bodies-genders-technologies-9781642599985","title":"Fundamental Problems of the Sociology of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten at the height of the purges, but unpublished for decades, Megrelidze’s text is arguably the most significant, erudite and wide-ranging work of Marxist philosophy written in the USSR at the time. Discussing the emergence and development of human consciousness from the origins of humanity to the rise of capitalism, Megrelidze discusses the major achievements of contemporary cognitive science, sociology, philosophy and linguistics in the light of the works of Marx and Engels that were being published at the time. Far from the rigidities of official ‘diamat’, the book illuminates the important debates in Soviet intellectual life that led to the works of figures such as Vygotsky and members of the ‘Bakhtin Circle’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Konstantin Megrelidze and His Fundamental Problems of the Sociology of Thinking\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgement\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Editor of the Russian Edition\u003cbr\u003eFundamental Problems of the Sociology of Thinking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeneral Exposition of the Question of Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Critique of Naturalistic Aims (§§ 1–3)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Material Conditions and Social Preconditions Necessary for the Rise of the Human Level of Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e Labour Activity (§ 4)\u003cbr\u003e Relations of Consumption and Production (§ 5)\u003cbr\u003e Labour and the Product of Labour (§§ 6, 7)\u003cbr\u003e The Product of Labour: Material Mediator of Social Relations (§ 8)\u003cbr\u003e Labour and Society: Mutual Dependence (§ 9)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 From the Animal Level of Consciousness to Human Thinking\u003cbr\u003e The Biological Roots of Consciousness (§ 10)\u003cbr\u003e Instincts and Reflex Responses (§§ 11, 12)\u003cbr\u003e The Intellectual Activity of Animals (§ 13)\u003cbr\u003e Shortcomings of Physiological Psychology and Classical Psychology (§ 14)\u003cbr\u003e On Gestalt Psychology (§ 15)\u003cbr\u003e Displays of Consciousness in Animals (§§ 16,17)\u003cbr\u003e Distinguishing Characteristics of Human Consciousness (§ 18)\u003cbr\u003e Interaction in the Animal World and Social Interaction (§ 19)\u003cbr\u003e The Ideational Content of Consciousness (§ 20)\u003cbr\u003e The Essential Particularities of Human Consciousness (§ 21)\u003cbr\u003e Preliminary Results (§ 22)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Material Culture and Thinking\u003cbr\u003e Labour Activity and Thinking (§§ 23, 24)\u003cbr\u003e The Materialisation of the Idea in the Process of Labour Activity and the Acquisition of Objects of Ideological Content (§ 25)\u003cbr\u003e Embodied Reason and Its Social Significance (§ 26)\u003cbr\u003e The Qualitative Particularity of Social Relations (§ 27)\u003cbr\u003e The Instrument of Labour – the Hand – Reason (§§ 28, 29)\u003cbr\u003e The Cognitive Significance of Mediated Activity (§§ 30, 31)\u003cbr\u003e The Tale of How ‘the Transcendental Is Made Immanent’ and ‘the Immanent Is Made Transcendental’ (§ 32)\u003c\/p\u003ep\u0026gt;4 The Problem of Perception in the Field of Marxist Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e The Perspective of Classical Psychology and Philosophy (§ 33)\u003cbr\u003e Sense Is Not the Basic Psychological Atom (§ 34)\u003cbr\u003e Sense Is Not a Symbol, but the Reflection of Reality (§§ 35, 36)\u003cbr\u003e The Relational Dependence of Sense Data (§§ 37–42)\u003cbr\u003e From the History of the Perception of Colours (§§ 41, 42)\u003cbr\u003e The Marxist Perspective on the Question of Sensory Perception (§ 43)\u003cp\u003e5 The Question of a Subject’s Self-Awareness\u003cbr\u003e Objects Are Perceived Primarily according to Their Social Importance (§ 44)\u003cbr\u003e Self-Awareness Is Historically a Much Later Phenomenon Than the Perception of Objects of Activities (§ 45)\u003cbr\u003e An Individual Subject’s Perception Was Historically Preceded by the Perception of the Collective Subject (§ 46)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2\u003cbr\u003e6 The Rise of the Idea\u003cbr\u003e Comprehension. The Concept (§ 48)\u003cbr\u003e Concept and Notion (§ 49)\u003cbr\u003e The Particular and the General (§ 50)\u003cbr\u003e The Doctrine of Existence and Concept (§ 51)\u003cbr\u003e The Doctrine of the Concept in the Empiricists and in Kant (§ 52)\u003cbr\u003e The Place of the Concept in the System of Rationalist Ideas (§§ 53, 54)\u003cbr\u003e Chance and Necessity (§ 55)\u003cbr\u003e Three Maps of the World (§ 56)\u003cbr\u003e Concept and Reality (§ 57)\u003cbr\u003e The Self-Contained Structure (§ 58)\u003cbr\u003e Self-Contained Structure and the Concrete Concept (§§ 59, 60)\u003cbr\u003e On Mathematical Concepts (§§ 61, 62)\u003cbr\u003e Generalisation and General Concepts (§ 63)\u003cbr\u003e The Structure of Concepts (§§ 64, 65)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The Sociogenesis of Ideas\u003cbr\u003e The Social Character of Individual Thinking (§ 66)\u003cbr\u003e The Question of Parallelisms and Convergences (§ 67)\u003cbr\u003e The Theory of Dispersion (§ 68)\u003cbr\u003e The Theory of Borrowing (§ 69)\u003cbr\u003e The Theory of the Identity of the Human Mind (§ 70)\u003cbr\u003e The Geographical Theory (§ 71)\u003cbr\u003e Shortcomings of the Existing Hypotheses (§ 72)\u003cbr\u003e Questions of Parallelisms in the Marxist Interpretation (§ 73)\u003cbr\u003e On the Origin of Flint and Steel (§ 74)\u003cbr\u003e Parallelisms in the Realm of Calculating Time (§ 75)\u003cbr\u003e Convergences in the Realm of Types of Thinking (§ 76)\u003cbr\u003e Social Existence and Social Consciousness (§ 77)\u003cbr\u003e The Individual and Society (§§ 78, 79)\u003cbr\u003e The Social Genesis of Ideas (§ 80)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 The Process of the Social Circulation of Ideas\u003cbr\u003e The Propagation of Ideas (§ 81)\u003cbr\u003e Social Circulation of the Products of Spiritual Creativity (§ 82)\u003cbr\u003e On Popular Creativity (§ 83)\u003cbr\u003e On Borrowing (§ 84)\u003cbr\u003e Social Consciousness (§ 85)\u003cbr\u003e The Composition and Content of Social Consciousness (§§ 86, 87)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 The Social Implementation of Ideas\u003cbr\u003e The Material Support of Ideas (§§ 88, 89)\u003cbr\u003e Needs and Interests (§ 90)\u003cbr\u003e The Structure of Social Interests (§ 91)\u003cbr\u003e The Predominance of Fetishistic Relations (§ 92)\u003cbr\u003e Surplus Product and Private Property (§ 93)\u003cbr\u003e Possessive Alienation and Its Liquidation (§§ 94, 95)\u003cbr\u003e The Concept of the Collective Social Field of History (§§ 96, 97)\u003cbr\u003e Class Interests (§ 98)\u003cbr\u003e Ideas Are Derivatives of Societal Interests (§§ 99, 100)\u003cbr\u003e The Nature of Conformity to the Laws of History in an Antagonistic Society (§§ 101, 102)\u003cbr\u003e The Social Implementation of Ideas (§§ 103–106)\u003cbr\u003e Class Consciousness (§ 107)\u003cbr\u003e Ideological Changes and Social Changes (§ 108)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Testing Ideas in the Process of Their Implementation\u003cbr\u003e What Is an Experience (§ 109)\u003cbr\u003e Testing Ideas by Experience, Practice (§§ 110–113)\u003cbr\u003e Pragmatism and Marxism (§ 114)\u003cbr\u003e A Thesis on Practice in Its General Philosophical Meaning (§ 115)\u003cbr\u003e Concluding Observations (§ 116)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSupplement: Nikolai Iakovlevich Marr and the Philosophy of Marxism (1935)\u003cbr\u003eGlossary of Names\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359883821399,"sku":"9781642599985","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fundamental-problems-of-the-sociology-of-thinking-bodies-genders-technologies-9781642599985","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}