Dialectics of the ideal : : Evald Ilyenkov and creative Soviet Marxism / / edited by Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 60
• TeilnehmendeR: Levant, Alex.; Oittinen, Vesa, 1951-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; 60.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (235 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; E.V. Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism: Introduction to Dialectics of the Ideal /; Dialectics of the Ideal /; Ilyenkov in the Context of Soviet Philosophical Culture: An Interview with Sergey Mareev /; Prospects for a Cultural-Historical Psychology of Intelligence /; Evald Ilyenkov, the Soviet Spinozist /; Reality of the Ideal /; Metamorphoses of Meaning: The Concept of the Ideal from a Semiotic Perspective /; Evald Ilyenkov’s Dialectics of Abstract and Concrete and the Recent Value-Form Debate /; Emancipating Open Marxism: E.V. Ilyenkov’s Post-Cartesian Anti-Dualism /; Bibliography of Evald Ilyenkov’s Works --; References --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004246924
• ISSN: 1570-1522
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen.

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, 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 This volume features Levant’s translation of Ilyenkov’s Dialectics of the Ideal (2009), which remained unpublished until thirty years after the author’s tragic suicide in 1979. Contributors include: Evald Ilyenkov, Tarja Knuuttila, Alex Levant, Andrey Maidansky, Vesa Oittinen, Paula Rauhala, and Birger Siebert.