The Practical Essence of Man: The 'Activity Approach' in Late Soviet Philosophy

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    Vesa Oittinen, Andrey Maidansky (eds.)

    Publisher: Haymarket Books

    Year: 2017

    Format: Paperback

    Size: 214 pages

    ISBN: 9781608466986

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This book depicts in detail the rise and fall of a remarkable phenomenon in Soviet Marxism: 'The Activity Approach.'

This book presents to Western readers, for the first time, a current in late Soviet philosophy known as the '‘activity approach’. Though lesser known than its counterpart in cultural-historical psychology (the thinking of Vygotsky and Leontyev), the activity approach became an intellectual mode, leading to several different interpretations of human activity and challenging Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy.

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