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The Heart of the Matter
Ilyenkov, Vygotsky and the Courage of Thought
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David Bakhurst
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
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The Heart of the Matter explores the legacies of Ilyenkov and Vygotsky, two Russian thinkers who marshalled their passion for truth, enlightenment and independent thought to understand the human mind, not for the sake of knowledge alone, but to help create the conditions in which human flourishing can become a reality for all. The book renders their theories intelligible against the dramatic social and historical background in which they lived and worked, bringing their ideas into dialogue with themes and thinkers in Western philosophy to reveal how they illuminate philosophical issues of enduring significance.
Author / Editor information
David Bakhurst, D.Phil (1989), Oxford University, is George Whalley Distinguished University Professor at Queen’s University, Canada. His writings include Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy (Cambridge, 1991) and The Formation of Reason (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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April 24, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9789004544253
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404
eBook ISBN:
9789004544253
Keywords for this book
Activity; Activity Theory; Bildung; cultural-historical psychology; freedom; human formation; the ideal; Evald Ilyenkov; materialism; John McDowell; reason; Russian Marxism; second nature; Soviet Philosophy; Lev Vygotsky
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars, researchers and students in philosophy (especially history of philosophy, philosophical psychology, philosophy of education, epistemology and metaphysics), psychology (especially history of psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental and cultural psychology), Russian and Soviet Studies, Cultural-Historical Activity Theory.
