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Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism
Author: Levant, Alex; Oittinen, Vesa;
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span Segoe UIInspanem Segoe UIDialectics of the Ideal Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxismspan Segoe UILevant 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features Levants translation of Ilyenkovsspanem Segoe UIDialectics of the Idealspan Segoe UI(2009), which remained unpublished until thirty years after the authors tragic suicide in 1979. Contributors include Evald Ilyenkov, Tarja Knuuttila, Alex Levant, Andrey Maidansky, Vesa Oittinen, Paula Rauhala, and Birger Siebert.span
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span Segoe UIInspanem Segoe UIDialectics of the Ideal Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxismspan Segoe UILevant 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features Levants translation of Ilyenkovsspanem Segoe UIDialectics of the Idealspan Segoe UI(2009), which remained unpublished until thirty years after the authors tragic suicide in 1979. Contributors include Evald Ilyenkov, Tarja Knuuttila, Alex Levant, Andrey Maidansky, Vesa Oittinen, Paula Rauhala, and Birger Siebert.span
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