ISBN<\/strong>: 978-0-9805428-7-5<\/p>\nIncluding \u201cDialectical Logic\u201d and essays on the ideal and activity, such as \u201cThe Universal,\u201d \u201cActivity and Knowledge\u201d and \u201cThe Concept of the Ideal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The articles collected in this volume were all written in the last few years of Ilyenkov\u2019s life in the mid- to late 1970s, before he died by his own hand, evidently exasperated at the dead end at which his country had arrived. Ilyenkov\u2019s work reflects a deep study of classical German philosophy and the writings of Karl Marx. Reflecting on the work of the school of psychology originating in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 30s by Lev Vygotsky, Ilyenkov gives this current is ultimate philosophical expression.<\/p>\n
The central achievement of Ilyenkov is to unravel the mystery of the nature of the ideal or universal as a product of human activity which allows the formation of a conscious reflection of that activity in the human mind. Ilyenkov showed that the ideal is not some ethereal object existing inside the human head but a special kind of cultural product, the archetype of which is money.<\/p>\n
Part One of the series of essays, \u201cDialectical Logic,\u201d published by Progress Publishers in 1974, traces the development of the concepts of the ideal through the history of the concept of logic from Descartes, through Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and Feuerbach. In Part Two of this collection, Ilyenkov takes a series of problems which lead us to an understanding of Marx\u2019s solution to these problems, including his treatment of the concept of the general or universal, and thus the ideal.
\nThis work is supplemented with a series of essays: \u201cActivity and Knowledge,\u201d \u201cThe Universal,\u201d and the well-known \u201cThe Concept of the Ideal.\u201d<\/p>\n
This work on the ideal is then supplemented with one of Ilyenkov\u2019s last works, the little known \u201cLeninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism. Reflections on Lenin\u2019s book: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism<\/em>,\u201d published in English in 1982. Many people will find this thoroughgoing defence of Lenin\u2019s \u2018notorious\u2019 book surprising, but as will be seen, an understanding of Lenin\u2019s point here is crucial to an understanding of the points covered in the earlier parts of this book.<\/p>\nProceeds benefit Marxists Internet Archive.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ideal in Human Activity by E. V. 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