Activity Theory and 'Creative' Soviet-Marxism are still overlocked by contemporary theorists. This volume is a correction to this tragic omission.

Alex Levant, Ph.D. (Social and Political Thought - York University), M.A. (Theory, Culture, Politics - Trent University), B.A. (English Literature and Film Studies - Wilfrid Laurier University). His areas of research include critical media theory, political economy of communication, cultural studies, globalization, social movements, and critical 'race' theory, among others.

Vesa Oittinen, Ph. D., born in 1951, is Professor at the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on the history of modern philosophy, especially German, Scandinavian, and Russian philosophy. Forthcoming publications include books on Evald Ilyenkov and on the so-called Activity Approach in Soviet philosophy, both with Historical Materialism

Foreword - Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen

I. DIALECTICS OF THE IDEAL

E.V. Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism: Introduction to Dialectics of the Ideal, Alex Levant
Dialectics of the Ideal (2009), Evald Ilyenkov


II. CONTEXTS

Ilyenkov in the Context of Soviet Philosophical Culture: An Interview with Sergey Mareev, Alex Levant and Vesa Oittinen
Prospects for a Cultural-Historical Psychology of Intelligence, Birger Siebert
Evald Ilyenkov, the Soviet Spinozist, Vesa Oittinen


III. COMMENTARIES

Reality of the Ideal, Andrey Maidansky
Metamorphoses of Meaning: The Concept of the Ideal from a Semiotic Perspective, Tarja Knuuttila
Evald Ilyenkov's Dialectics of Abstract and Concrete and the Recent Value-Form Debate, Vesa Oittinen and Paula Rauhala
Emancipating Open Marxism: E.V. Ilyenkov's Post-Cartesian Anti-Dualism, Alex Levant


IV. SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

Published works by Ilyenkov


References