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Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism

By Alex Levant , Vesa Oittinen (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2014
ISBN
978-90-04-23097-2, 978-90-04-24692-8
ISSN
1570-1522
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1450400 bytes)
Series
Historical Materialism 60
Pages
236\236
Time added
2015-07-18 15:22:58
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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 This volume features Levant’s translation of Ilyenkov’s Dialectics of the Ideal (2009), which remained unpublished until thirty years after the author’s tragic suicide in 1979, as well as additional reflections and context by contemporary scholars.

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