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The practical essence of man : the 'activity approach' in late Soviet philosophy /

For the first time, this book presents to Western readers a current in the late Soviet philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s known as the 'activity approach'. It had to some degree a counterpart in so-called cultural-historical psychology, but whilst the work of Vygotsky and Leontyev was recei...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maidansky, Andrey (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2015.
Colección:Historical materialism book series ; 108.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction (Maidansky and Oittinen); Chapter 1. Activity and the Search for True Materialism (Bakhurst); Chapter 2. 'Praxis' as the Criterion of Truth? The Aporias of Soviet Marxism and the Activity Approach (Oittinen); Chapter 3. Reality as Activity: The Concept of Praxis in Soviet Philosophy (Maidansky); Chapter 4. The Category of Activity in Soviet Philosophy (Titarenko); Chapter 5. The Activity Approach and Metaphysics (Swiderski); Chapter 6. Abstract and Concrete Understanding of Activity: 'Activity' and 'Labour' in Soviet Philosophy (Mareev)
  • Chapter 7. The Kiev Philosophical School in the Light of the Marxist Theory of Activity (Mareeva)Chapter 8. The Evolution of Batishchev's Views on the Nature of Objective Activity, and the Limits of the Activity Approach (Khamidov); Chapter 9. The Activity Approach in Soviet Philosophy and Contemporary Cognitive Studies (Lektorsky); Chapter 10. The Concept of the Scheme in the Activity Theories of Ilyenkov and Piaget (Määttänen); Chapter 11. The Ideal and the Dream-World: Evald Ilyenkov and Walter Benjamin on the Significance of Material Objects (Levant); Bibliography; Index.