Index
Abovin-Egides, P.M.
159n
abstract and concrete
133n7, 172–5, 222–3, 229–31, 253
activity
10–13, 43–9, 132n
aim-orientated
324
and action
335–8
and human formation
167–70
and human life form
338–9
and ideality (Ilyenkov)
12, 48–9, 129, 136–8, 149, 156, 163, 167, 189, 202–3, 238, 274n15, 310–11, 320, 322–5, 327
and self-consciousness
332–4
as understood in activity theory
309–10
creative
187–90, 219
human
8, 11, 71, 86, 138, 143, 145n27, 185, 187, 312, 316, 319
in Marxist philosophy
43–9, 119
in Meshcheryakov’s method
99–103
joint
100–101
object of
317–18
object-orientated
19–20, 33, 51, 55–8, 77–8, 85, 302–39 passim
objections and responses to Ilyenkov’s understanding of
143–57
social forms of
170, 323–4
see also Ilyenkov, E.V., on the ideal; ideality; life-activity
activity approach
85, 87, 145n27, 302–4, 309, 313, 318, 319
objections and responses to
321–7
tasked with illuminating human life form
327–8, 338–9
activity systems
307–9, 313–5, 317, 330–31, 334
activity theory
3, 17, 78, 131, 302–18 passim, 330–31
generations of
304–8
aesthetics
109, 135, 177–91 passim, 254
agency
4, 12, 25, 303, 334
historical
197
human
132n, 138, 143, 146–9, 189, 223, 292, 299, 312, 338
of child/learner
169–70, 232–3, 256
of others
167–8, 170
Akselrod, L.I. (Ortodoks)
196
Aleksandrov, G.F.
126
alienation
53, 63, 162, 166, 202n35
Allen, B.
148
Ancient Greek thought
218, 229, 267
see also Aristotle
animal
behaviour
92, 306
consciousness
290, 291n33
contrast with the human
69, 72, 91–2, 154–6, 167–8, 274, 293–4, 312, 346
human
53, 170, 293, 347, 352, 354, 356, 360
non-human
44, 155, 166, 172, 305, 306, 312, 337, 338, 352, 361
rational
171n31, 186, 321, 349
anomalous monism
236n57, 295n44
Anscombe, G.E.M.
320
answerability
17
anthropocentrism
151, 189–90, 278, 311–12, 322–4
anthropogenesis
53–4, 144, 311
anthropology
211, 302
philosophical
143–4, 190, 227, 309, 330
speculative
144, 311
static
350
Aristotle
33, 211, 290, 342, 349–54
Arsen’ev, A.S.
4, 10, 18, 158–61, 204n46
art
39, 109–10, 177–91 passim, 254, 322, 360
artefacts
70, 75, 166, 189, 275, 300, 304, 307, 332
ideality of
86, 137, 163, 296–7, 320
intelligence embodied in
360–61
mediational role of
304
selves as
271
Asmus, V.F.
211n2
autism
287, 298
autonomy
54, 108, 160–61, 168–9, 185n18, 224, 226, 234–5, 313, 324, 327, 362
cultivation of
170, 341, 362
of reason
11
power of
343
Avenarius, R.
195n12
awareness
9, 153, 213, 216n19, 222, 240–41, 244, 249, 251, 255, 265n, 273, 334, 346
of other minds
9
of past
214
of reality
201, 280
of reasons
225
of self and mental states
7, 11, 23, 213, 234, 259, 268
Bakhtin, M.M.
17, 34, 80–82, 315
Basova, E.I.
128
Batishchev, G.S.
158–61, 318, 321–4, 327
becoming
42, 50, 54, 58, 170, 237, 244–5
behaviour
9–10, 26, 186, 231, 236, 277, 287n18, 290, 305, 350–51
animal
92, 306
human
27, 70–72, 83, 91, 100, 136, 150, 167, 169, 189, 220n34, 271, 275, 294, 304, 320, 345
structure of
213
behaviourism
10, 24, 56, 68, 151, 212, 242, 270, 304, 307
Bekhterev, V.M.
69n
belief
11–12, 82, 132n, 138, 141, 142n, 154, 170, 188, 225n43, 241–3, 249, 266n2, 269, 272–4, 275–9, 291–2, 294, 296, 346, 355
reasons for
138, 149, 187n, 242, 272, 275, 279, 298, 310
Bennett, M.R.
285, 289–91
Bergson, H.
211
Berkeley, G.
241
Bibler, V.S.
4, 16–64 passim, 158–60, 193, 218–19, 245
Bildung
154–5, 157, 200, 236, 275, 310, 321, 323, 327, 341, 345, 347, 349, 351, 357–8, 360–63
Blakemore, S.-J.
286–8
blind-deaf children
61–2, 89–108 passim
body
20, 57, 84, 95, 98, 100, 167, 214n7, 220, 265n1, 355
and mind
4, 9, 106n43, 140, 219, 282
human
56, 168
inorganic body of man
200
in personal identity
24, 35, 39, 41
of civilisation
13, 200
of culture
202
of individual
20, 201
see also thinking
Bogdanov, A.A.
104n38, 166, 195n12, 204, 206, 211n2
brain
and education
282–9, 297–301
in personal identity
24, 35, 41
mind irreducible to
7, 9–11, 20, 26, 35, 39, 41, 84, 160, 163, 166–8, 193, 282–97
brainism
282–4, 288, 292
Brandom, R.
325, 341, 357, 358n62
Brentano, F.
211
Brezhnev era
4, 106
Bridgman, L.
94, 95n
Bruer, J.T.
287
Bruner, J.S.
149, 236n57, 260–61, 270–72, 279–80
Brushlinsky A.V.
51, 105, 106, 307
Bubner, R.
350, 359
Bukharin, N.I.
196–7, 203n38, 204n46, 206–7
Burgess, A.
113n2
Burnyeat, M.
351
Capital (Marx)
118n25, 129, 133–4, 201, 338
capitalism
133n7, 166, 182, 185, 219
Cartesianism
9, 11–12, 30, 141–3, 199, 218, 220n34, 236, 268, 278, 289, 292n36, 310
Central Committee (TsK KPSS)
77, 124, 125n49, 127, 162n11
chelovek
19, 282n2
Chernyshev, B.
109–10
Chernyshevsky, N.
38
Chertkov, V.I.
129
child development
45, 47, 57–62, 245, 250, 254, 270
Ilyenkovian view of
86–7, 139, 144, 152, 154–6, 167–70, 171n32, 173–5, 184, 274–5, 284, 295–300, 323–4, 353–62
in Vygotsky
69–72, 78, 213–7, 222–3, 226–8, 230–36, 248–9
see also blind-deaf children
Clark, K.
80–82
cognition
34, 133n7, 184, 186, 188–9, 196, 205, 222–3, 229–31
cognitive science
88, 118, 152, 279, 282, 285, 290, 356n55
cognitive virtues
176, 186–7
see also intellectual virtues
Cohen, S.
197n17
coherentism
154, 272–3
Cole, M.
208
communication
53–4, 77–8, 81–3, 94–5, 97–8, 100–101, 107, 132, 216–7, 224, 238–9, 242, 281, 300, 319, 322, 324, 328
communism
56, 156, 174–5, 225, 321, 339
community
19–20, 28, 53–7, 59, 63, 65, 71–2, 74–5, 83, 86–7, 97, 129, 137, 152, 155, 163–4, 184, 185n18, 200, 203, 215, 222, 235, 302, 310, 322–4, 351, 356n56
as arbiter of truth
276–9
computers
8, 24, 258, 277–8, 360
concepts
acquisition/formation of
104, 133n7, 222–3, 227n, 250, 350–55
and mediation
241, 249, 332–3
beholden to reality
228
in experience
214, 240–41, 249
in Vygotsky
229–31
key
219, 310, 318, 321
scientific
172–3, 222, 231
see also forms of thought
conceptual capacities
145, 154–5, 164, 236, 274–5, 295–6, 312, 320, 346, 351, 353–4, 359
conceptual scheme
33, 49, 142n, 144, 147, 214, 269n7
concrete universal
133n7, 200
consciousness
7–8, 13, 24–5, 44, 53, 58, 61, 68–9, 71–2, 74n10, 85–7, 103, 132, 148, 168, 202
activity and
303, 309
brain and
285, 288, 290, 322
in Voloshinov
82–4
in Vygotsky
77–9, 212–16, 224, 229
mediation and
244, 246
philosophical
159
social
136–7, 199–200, 202, 320
unity of
349
see also self-consciousness
constructivism/constructionism
accounts of normativity
325–6, 358–9
in Bruner’s thought
270–72
rejection of
152, 240–42, 275–9
social
17, 141–2, 147–8, 152, 228, 261, 268–9, 270–71, 280, 341
contradiction
13, 39, 57–9, 62–3, 133n7, 171–2, 174, 200, 306, 315–6
convention
151–2, 278, 351–2
corporeal(ity)
20, 28–9, 40, 46, 56–7
creativity
8–9, 11, 129, 169, 172, 244, 246, 293, 296, 323–4
crisis in psychology
68, 212, 239
cubism
182
cultural a priori
129, 227, 324
cultural evolution
215, 223, 232
cultural psychology
149n, 236n57, 260, 265–80 passim
cultural relativism
232
culture
and formation of mind
12, 71, 74–5, 86, 98, 139, 143–4, 152, 154, 167–71, 214–18, 200, 221, 236–7, 274–6, 280, 302, 310, 320–21, 341, 361–2
and human life-activity
140
and the ideal
137, 177, 202
contrasted with nature
75, 77, 79–80, 84
humanity’s spiritual
86–7, 135–6, 138, 144, 158, 164, 173, 320
in Vygotsky’s psychology
77–9, 214–35 passim
mediation and
243–4
oral
4, 17, 66–7, 77, 79, 133
cybernetics
7, 159n, 166, 183, 189, 283, 294
Daglish, R.
4, 363
Danto, A.C.
181n
Darwinism
211n1
Davidson, D.
11, 142n, 236n57, 241–2, 295n44, 341
Davydov, V.V.
3, 5, 16–63 passim, 85, 90, 105, 172–3, 230n51, 283n3, 307
de-Stalinisation
130n62, 164–5
deaf-blind children, see blind-deaf children
Deaf culture
217n22
death
21, 25, 34–5, 41, 47–8, 58, 60, 63, 74, 189
of art
180, 190
Deborin, A.M.
76, 123, 195–6
defect
107, 217
democracy
176
Dennett, D.
271, 285, 290
derivation monism
321–2, 327
Derry, J.
219, 225n39, 341
Descartes, R.
9, 22–3, 30, 32–4, 41, 95, 140–41, 211, 218, 219–20
see also Cartesianism
development
all-round
160, 169, 173–4, 175, 185, 284
forces of
77, 306
general genetic law of cultural
214, 218
historical
54, 143, 168, 232
human
26–7, 36, 52, 57, 77, 106–7, 156, 164n15, 293, 296, 342, 345
laws of
221
of mind
11, 13, 20, 21, 25–6, 33, 51, 63, 77–8, 84, 104, 106–7, 152, 165, 168–9, 185n18, 187, 205, 245, 249–50, 270, 280, 345n11, 359, 360
of reality
202
of subjectivity
245–6
of thought
118, 120n36
principle of
133n7
qualitative transformation and
219, 229
Vygotsky’s view of
68–75, 212–7, 219n29, 222–4, 226–7, 232–7
zone of proximal
223, 233
see also child development
Dewey, J.
72, 171, 175, 211, 253n6, 260, 307, 332
dialectical method
133, 196, 214
dialectics
48, 121, 129, 152, 162–3, 171–2, 194, 196–8, 200n31, 205–6, 296n46
identity with logic and theory of knowledge
117–18, 163n12, 198n22, 206
see also materialism, dialectical
Diderot, D.
94–5, 101n30, 104
Dilthey, W.
211, 236
disability
95, 98, 217
discursive psychology
142, 242, 268
disenchantment
149, 273, 277, 348
dogmatism
9, 165, 175
Dostoevsky, F.M.
28, 39
dualism
Cartesian
140, 270, 289
scheme-content
269n7, 280
socio-biological
31
subject-object
4
two-worlds
10, 220
Dubinin, N.I.
36
Dubrovsky, D.I.
26, 36, 105–6, 260
ecology
312, 324
education
6, 14, 61, 66, 321, 331, 338–47, 349n28, 350, 362–3
activity theory and
302, 315
as infinite end
339
brain-based
285–9, 297–300
educational experience
255–9
educational technology
258–9
in Ilyenkov
106–7, 156, 158–76 passim, 185n18, 283–4, 299–300
in Vygotsky
217, 223, 226, 229, 232–3, 235
of blind-deaf children
5n7, 22n, 61, 89–108 passim
of senses
187
Eisenstein, S.M.
4n
elementary mental functions
69–70, 72, 75, 213–14, 223, 227
Elkonin, D.B.
172, 173, 307
embodied coping
200, 333–4, 360
emotions
185, 186n20, 226, 229, 248, 250–2, 254–6, 258–9, 286, 307
empirical realism
146–8, 153
empiricism
28, 60, 95, 104, 133–4, 164, 220, 240–41, 269n7, 310
enabling/constitutive distinction
275–6, 289n28, 292
Engels, F.
8, 37, 115, 117–8, 122, 127, 197, 204, 205, 211, 238, 311, 337
Engeström, Y.
304, 306–7, 309, 314–6, 318, 330
ethos
135, 142, 172, 183, 255, 318, 330
Eurocentrism
223, 232, 235
evil
178–9
existentialism
32
experience
9, 95, 133n7, 140, 172–4, 185n18, 198, 215, 216, 220, 222, 227
and concept formation
231
and justification of belief
277, 291
and language
82
as-structure of
332
concepts in
14, 145, 148–9, 274, 346
doubled
213
educational
255–9
human
155
Kantian conception of
145–7, 199, 227
learning by
171
life
128
McDowell’s conception of
154–5, 272–4, 346
memory
83, 265–6, 269, 274
mental intermediaries
240–41
mind as organising
270–72
preconditions of
144, 151, 322n6
reason in
149, 154, 295, 312
recalcitrant
354
socially organised
211n2
subject of
10, 72, 98, 268, 349
thick conception of
249–55, 259–60
see also dualism, scheme-content; myth of the given; perezhivanie
explanation
and concept of activity
310, 314
bootstrapping
190
causal
236, 298
folk psychological
271
genetic
106n46
natural-scientific v. rational-normative
11, 235–6, 270, 293–6, 298, 338, 345–6
of creativity
244
of learning disabilities/disorders
281, 297, 299
of psychological differences
169
of relation of nature and culture
79, 84
scientific
228–9
stops with action
150
Feltrinelli Editore
193
feminism
17, 302
Feuerbach, L.
211, 219
Fichte, J.G.
22–3, 32–4, 46, 211
first-person perspective
292
flourishing
106–8, 156, 160–62, 165, 169, 174–5, 179, 182–3, 185n18, 217, 232, 257, 352n47
folk psychology
141, 149, 271, 282n1
form of life
150–51, 164, 166, 293, 299, 310, 327, 352, 353, 359n66, 360
see also life-activity
forms of thought
13, 118, 129, 139, 170, 197–202, 227, 232, 299, 324
Frank, S.L.
211n2
Franks, P.
321
freedom
187, 190, 342, 342–4
and deliberation
343
and rationality/reason
147, 186, 195, 199, 202, 219, 225–7, 341–3, 358
and self-consciousness
327–8
and self-determination
352n47
in human activity
8
intellectual
355
not captured by natural law
346–7
of choice
235, 343
realm of
350, 354
spontaneous expressions of
344
see also autonomy; self-determination
Freud, S.
23, 33, 80
Frith, U.
286–8
Frolov, I.T.
35, 37
Gadamer, H.-G.
156, 188n, 353
Gagarin, A.P.
122
Galperin, P. Ya.
76, 85, 90, 97, 102
genes
45, 58, 61–62
German Ideology
59, 337
Gestalt psychology
68, 212
gesture
101, 107
glasnost
18, 106, 107, 135, 158n3
Goethe, J.W. von
202, 215n13
Goodman, N.
271
habits
350, 351n38, 354–5
habituation
347, 349–55, 362
Hacker, P.M.S.
285, 288–90, 291n33
Hacking, I.
341
Hegel, G.W.F.
13, 27, 30, 33, 38, 39, 41–2, 44, 52, 55, 56, 109, 127, 136, 152, 154, 173, 184, 190, 211, 218–19, 221, 238, 321, 326, 338, 341–3, 350, 354–5, 357–8, 361
in Bukharin’s thought
196–7
in Ilyenkov’s philosophy
192–208 passim
in Russia
194–7
Hegelianism
23, 27–8, 55, 116n11, 123, 192, 194, 219, 221, 245, 295n45, 343, 359
see also Marxism, Hegelian
Heidegger, M.,
48, 332
Hellbeck, J.
197
heteronomy
226
higher mental functions
69–72, 86, 103, 214–17, 226, 236, 238, 240, 242
Hobbes, T.
211
Holquist, M.
80–82
Howe, S.
95n
human essence
16–63 passim
Husserl, E.
211
ideal forms
86, 136–8, 167, 201, 296, 299
see also activity; ideality
ideals
8, 38, 161, 178, 183, 187, 222, 226–7, 232, 235, 279, 309, 329, 339, 352n47, 361–2
regulative
178, 183
idealism
77, 115, 119, 126, 161n8, 203n38, 295n45, 328
absolute
196
menshevising
76, 123
transcendental
146
ideality
8, 13, 22, 29, 59, 102, 310, 339, 350, 354–5
see also Ilyenkov, on the ideal
identity
42, 58, 253
cultural
20
intellectual
207
of action
306
of dialectics, logic and theory of knowledge
117–18, 163n12, 198n22, 206
of mind and body/brain
282, 289
of thinking and being
8, 118, 129, 144, 152, 200
political
119
Illesh, E.E.
109, 114, 121n38, 126, 128, 129n61
Ilyenkov, E.V.
ix–x
and freedom
186, 190, 199
and morality
39, 86, 136, 156, 175, 179, 182
critique/persecution of
105–8, 114–15, 120–30, 192–4, 206–8
death of
208, 266–8
humanism of
162–7
influence of Hegel on
199–200, 203
influence of Lenin on
204–6
‘Italian affair’ of
193
Kantian reading of
145–8
key moments of his philosophy
319–21
life of
108–10
objections to his position
143–5
on all-round development of individual
160, 173–4, 175, 185–6, 284
on animal minds
312
on art/aesthetics
177–91 passim
on concept of activity
143, 190, 284, 309–13, 315–16, 323
on education
167–76
on language
139, 143, 155, 199, 201, 296–7
on life
188–90, 333
on method
133
on mind and brain
10–11, 282–4, 293–6
on personhood
16–63 passim
on philosophy as logic/science of thought
ix–x, 117–18, 160, 192, 197–8, 329
on scientific-technological revolution
165–6, 185
on socio-cultural formation of mind
12, 139–40, 167–70, 280
on Soviet philosophy
115–20
on the ideal
85–7, 106n43, 109, 118n25, 129–30, 134–46, 149, 155, 163–4, 166–67, 177, 181n, 188–90, 193, 198, 201–2, 204, 206, 245–6, 274, 310–11, 319–20, 323–7, 332, 338, 359–60
parallels with McDowell
154–7, 274–5, 280, 293–4, 296–7, 359–62
Wittgensteinian reading of
148–52
work on/with Meshcheryakov
92, 96, 100n28, 103–7, 109, 165
Ilyenkov, V.P.
109
Ilyenkov-Korovikov theses
109, 113–30 passim, 160, 162, 164, 192, 197
imagination
9, 89n3, 146, 168, 172, 177, 184–5, 187–8, 191, 200, 249–50
incommensurability
33–4, 68, 142n, 212, 232
individualism
195, 224, 234–5
individuality
20–21, 26, 31–2, 34–6, 41–4, 49, 52, 56, 174, 184
indoctrination
175
infinite ends
337, 339
inner speech
12, 43, 48, 244
inquiry
50, 119–20, 133n7, 152, 171, 173, 175, 187, 215, 228, 257, 276n20, 277, 279, 288–9, 299, 326, 332–3
object of
50, 317, 288
philosophical
9, 163, 183, 279, 303, 339
psychological
68, 208, 211n1, 218, 234, 280
scientific
120, 212, 221, 229
Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology, Moscow
4, 5, 17–18, 25, 61, 105
Institute of Philosophy, Moscow
5, 18, 103n36, 105, 114, 121, 125–9, 159n, 161–2, 192, 206–7, 266
instruction
90–91, 93, 102, 223, 233, 256, 259
instrumentalism
322–3
intellectual virtues
170–72, 174
see also cognitive virtues
intelligence
artificial (AI)
8, 165, 283, 294
embodied
200, 360–61
in action/activity
333, 344
practical
350
tests
77
intentional action
238, 333–4
internalisation
43, 71, 84, 86, 98, 169, 200, 215, 218, 234, 323–4, 357, 361
interpersonal relations
59, 77, 98, 322
interpretation
82, 150–51, 224n, 268–73, 348, 353, 356n56
intersubjectivity
6, 12, 188, 356
introspection
11, 22, 32–4, 212
irrealism
270–72, 280
Ivanov, V.V.
80
James. W.
211, 220n34
joint activity
12, 100–101, 139, 319
judgement
170–71, 175, 239, 296, 343, 354
moral
206, 352
natural-historical
327
value
83
justice
8, 175, 352
Kagarlitsky, B.
194, 198
Kant, I.
11, 33–4, 144–54, 168, 190, 199–200, 203, 211, 218–19, 227, 249, 273, 292n36, 294, 311, 343, 346, 349
Kantian paradox
203, 358
Kaptelinin, V.
314, 330n
Kedrov, B.M.
103, 125, 192, 207
Keller, H.
94, 95n, 96n21, 97
Kharkov (Kharkiv)
76, 96–7
Khrushchev, N.S.
127–8
thaw
3, 135, 309
Klyamkin, I.M.,
158, 160, 161n8
Komsomol’skaya Pravda
158, 161
Kopnin, V.P.
207
Korneeva (Krylatova) N.N.
89, 101n30
Korovikov, V.I.
113–28, 130, 162, 165, 192–4, 198, 206–7
Korsgaard, C.
341
Kosichev, A.D.
121–2
Kozulin, A.
67n3
Kripke, S.
150
Kuhn, T.
33
labour
44, 87, 137–8, 142, 163, 166, 168, 180, 201, 245, 297n47, 311, 322n8, 337
division of
53–4, 100, 174, 176, 185–7, 284, 305
Lampert, E.
4, 363
language
132, 136, 214–15, 239, 247, 267, 322, 333
games
151
in Ilyenkov
48, 139–43, 155, 164, 199, 201, 296–7
in McDowell,
299, 360–61
in Meshcheryakov
94–8, 101–2, 107
in Voloshinov
80–81, 86
in Vygotsky,
217, 214–15, 217, 228, 230–31, 234, 236, 304
natural
70–71, 75
of real life
54
role in enculturation
154–5, 162, 275, 351, 353–6
laws
causal
236, 273
dialectical
27, 116, 196
general/universal
27, 115–21, 123, 133n7, 160, 192, 202
logical
164n15
moral
361
natural
8, 71, 84, 116–17, 235
of being
158
of development
221
of history
231
of the ideal
167
of thought
118
physical
69, 294
psycho-physical
71, 84, 295n44
scientific
116–17, 230, 345
social
63
learning
12, 17, 50, 99, 139, 255–60, 285–8, 336, 339, 341
by initiation/habituation
349–55, 362
computer
8
disorders
287, 297–300
Ilyenkov’s view of
139, 283–5
language
86, 94–5, 101–2, 217, 230, 353, 355
philosophy
162
rules
150
to confront contradiction
174
to think
157, 165, 170–72
Vygotsky’s view of
217, 223, 232–4
Leibniz, G.W.
41, 218, 227n
Lektorsky, V.A.
3, 16–63 passim, 113n3, 114n4, 122n42, 131, 159n, 192, 193n5, 204n46, 206
Lenin, V.I.
38, 39, 44, 104n38, 166, 197–8, 211n2
Ilyenkov’s view of
117, 122, 135, 163n12, 191–2, 201, 204–6
Testament of
197
Philosophical Notebooks
195, 198, 204–5
Leontiev, A.N.
31, 50–51, 56, 76–9, 85, 90, 102–3, 131, 169–70, 283n3, 301, 303, 305–7, 309, 311–13, 330–33, 335–9
Lerner, Yu. M.
89
Levant, A.
134n8
lichnost’
18–20, 31
Lichtenberg, G.C.
211
life form
172, 260, 327, 329, 338, 363
life-activity
8–9, 11, 13, 25, 39, 59, 170, 325
and self-consciousness
333
and the ideal
137, 140, 201–2
and world
188–9
as dependent on others
57–8
everyday
204
of non-human animal
312
mindedness and
10–13, 164, 166, 184, 284, 292, 295, 338, 356
logic
dialectical
28, 42, 109, 117–18, 133n7, 139n23, 163, 164n15, 197–8
formal/symbolic
139n23, 197
identity with dialectics and theory of knowledge
117, 163n12, 198, 207
Marxist
20, 205
of creative thought
162, 244
of empiricism
60
of naturalism
28, 31, 50, 52
of object
120, 293, 310
of reason
156
philosophy as
329, 338
Luria, A.R.
76, 78, 85, 90, 96, 97, 102, 307
Lysenko, T.D.
106, 122
machines
8–9, 11, 21, 49, 166, 189, 190, 266, 294, 300, 360
Mach, E.
195n12
machism
205
MacIntyre, A.
267
Malebranche, N.
211
Malinovsky, A.A.
104n38
Mandel’shtam, N.
221
Marcuse, H.
185n18, 196n14, 245
Mareev, S.N.
194, 267–8
Marx, K.
19, 30, 32–3, 37, 42–4, 46–7, 49, 51, 52, 54, 56, 69, 117n14, 118n25, 122, 127, 133n7, 156, 163, 197, 200–201, 202n35, 204–5, 211, 218–19, 221, 238, 309, 312, 319, 325, 332, 337–8, 339, 341–2
1844 Manuscripts of
30, 156, 201
Marxism
16, 25, 76, 115, 126, 185, 191, 193, 195, 207, 211, 284, 304, 320
dogmatic
225
founders of
78, 122, 162, 198, 204
Hegelian
16, 76, 207, 230, 238, 283
humanist
157, 207
Lenin’s
191
of Voloshinov/Bakhtin
80–82
Russian/Soviet
16, 132, 139n23, 166, 196n14, 206, 309
Marxism-Leninism
113, 117, 119, 121, 123, 124, 131, 135, 161n8, 162, 166, 204–5, 304
Marxist philosophy
85, 115, 119–23, 127, 133, 159–61, 192, 196, 285
Marxist psychology
66, 69n, 211n1
materialism
86, 161n8, 189, 201, 236, 309, 319, 328
dialectical
78, 116, 118, 121–2, 126, 160, 196, 204–5
eliminative
141, 282n1
historical
16, 121, 126, 160, 192
mathematics
70, 172–3, 230
McDowell, J.H.
130, 132n, 138n19, 154–7, 200, 225n39, 236n57, 272–5, 280, 288, 293–7, 299, 326, 332, 339–63 passim
Mead, G.H.
307
meaning
10, 42, 43, 48–9, 132, 277, 290, 361
and intersubjectivity
188, 256
externalism
297n48
in Bruner
270–71, 273, 276
in Meshcheryakov
94, 96, 101
in Voloshinov
81–4
in Vygotsky
71, 74, 78, 79, 215–16, 223, 224, 307, 310
in Wittgenstein
148–51, 289, 348
mediation and
243–4
of psychological terms
291
scepticism
150–52
see also ideality; Ilyenkov, on the ideal
mechanism
59, 189
natural
288
psychological
217
mediation
and second nature
345
as disclosing reality
312
by mental states
9, 140, 249, 252
in Ilyenkov
87, 144
in Vygotsky
70–71, 73–5, 79, 83–5, 214–17, 219, 238–46 passim, 253, 280
semiotic
71, 73–5, 79, 83–5, 87, 253, 307, 309
see also mental intermediaries
meeting of minds
12, 234, 300, 324, 356n56, 362
memory
and personal identity,
24, 35, 41, 266
social/collective
65–88 passim, 267–9, 274, 279
in Vygotsky
72–5, 213, 214, 216, 238, 242–3, 254
experiential
265–6
menshevising idealism
76, 123
mental intermediaries
240–41
mental life
10, 87, 95, 97, 99, 234, 282, 289, 292, 297n48
Meshcheryakov, A.I.
3, 22, 61, 85, 89–110 passim, 165
metaphysics
152, 161n8, 204, 246
revisionary
141
method
Ilyenkov on
109, 110, 118–20, 129, 133, 162–3, 164n15, 172, 192–3, 196, 198
in activity theory
313–14
in Vygotsky
71, 214, 219, 225n42
of sympathetic identification
133n5
philosophy as
160
Mikhailov, F.T.
x, 3–14 passim, 16–64 passim, 128n60, 105, 131, 132n, 154, 158–61, 194, 204, 206n49, 245, 260, 288, 318, 363
mindedness
10–11, 155, 164, 168, 200, 217, 224, 276, 283, 289, 299, 310, 321, 345, 352, 356–7, 360–62
modernism (art)
182n13, 187, 190
Modrzhinskaya, E.D.
125, 206n51
Molodtsov, V.C.
122
morality
47, 49, 62–3, 156, 175, 194, 339
and agency
199
and Aristotelian view of character development
349–54
and Marxist humanism
160
and role of philosophy
162
Moscow State University (MGU)
96, 109–10, 113, 120–21, 124–7, 158n3, 161n8, 162, 192, 194
music
177, 229, 257, 299, 334–5
myth of the given
154, 241, 269, 272
Nagel, T.
291, 292n38
Nardi, B.
330n
narrative
197, 269, 272
and memory
74–5, 83, 213, 242
and self/identity
244, 267–9, 270–71
Narsky, I.S.
105–6, 158, 159n
natural science
7–8, 33, 52, 84, 116–18, 123, 133n7, 141–3, 185, 195, 293, 295, 345–6
naturalism
7–9, 26–8, 30–31, 36, 39, 46, 50, 52, 57, 59–60, 141–2, 163, 169, 219, 221, 228–9, 277, 282n1, 294n43, 360
nature
8, 51, 69, 107, 117, 178–9, 188, 203, 204, 228, 283
and space of reasons
273
control/mastery of
70, 222, 226–7, 324
endowed/gifted by
69, 72, 75, 103, 106, 140, 164, 167–8, 170, 213
general laws of
27, 115, 118, 121, 160, 192
human
43, 327, 349, 356
idealisation/humanisation of
137–9, 143–4, 146, 149 153, 154, 296, 299, 310, 312–13, 320
in itself
332n8
material transformation of
78, 86, 184
place of mind in
218, 245–6, 279, 331
second
84n46, 274, 341–63 passim
nauka
173, 197
necessity
and rules/norms
150
freedom and rational
186, 190, 225, 296, 343
natural
11, 361
needs
13, 50, 56–7, 76, 91, 99, 245, 310
Nemeth, T.
7, 131, 132n, 133n5, 153
Neuhouser, F.
343
Neurath, O.
120, 211, 352, 354–5
neuroscience
284–5, 287–9, 297–8, 300
New Soviet Man
168
Newton, I.
33
Nietzsche, F.
178n2, 211
non-reductive physicalism
282n1
see also anomalous monism
normativity
10, 86, 136, 149–52, 170, 189, 216, 225, 241–3, 270, 295, 310, 319–20, 344, 346, 350–51, 354, 356
constructivist accounts of
325, 326, 340, 358–9
sources of
198, 202–3, 361
Novokhat’ko, A.G.
194
Oakeshott, M.
174n39
objectification
56, 63, 137, 139, 141, 163, 187, 189, 202, 310, 320, 326, 360
objectivity
58, 135, 149–51, 185, 193, 317, 325
obshchenie
19, 50, 53, 98
Oizerman, T.I.
115, 119n31, 120, 124–5
orthodoxy
78, 81, 85, 113–130 passim, 132, 135, 159, 161n8, 163, 175, 183, 192, 196, 203, 206, 304
partiinost’
76, 119n31
Pasternak, B.
193
Pavlov, I.P.
69n, 92
Pavlov, T.D.
126–7
perception
as openness to reality
171, 238, 274, 280
basic forms of
69, 213
charged with agency
292
empiricist view of
133n7
Gibsonian view of
332
higher forms of
184, 187, 213
informed by concepts
148, 154, 214, 240, 269, 332, 346
meaningful
216, 224, 310
mediated by psychological tools
238–9
passive dimensions of
354
perestroika
18, 106, 135, 158n3
perezhivanie
247–60 passim
Permar, R.
4n5
person
as living human being
244
as psychological subject
10–11, 282–4 292, 338, 256
autonomy of
224, 362
formation of
103, 164
identity of
16–63 passim, 266n2
narrative and
244
rational
226, 296
science of
89
self-conscious
359
personalism
10–11, 281, 288–90, 293, 297, 300
Stern’s
68, 212
philosophical anthropology
143, 190, 227, 309, 330
philosophy
Anglo-American (analytic)
23, 25, 29–30, 32, 33, 42, 49, 139n23, 143, 240, 302, 328, 331, 335
as infinite end
339
as science of thought
ix, 117–18, 120–21, 157, 160, 192, 197–8, 338–9
as self-consciousness
328
concept of activity in
303–7, 309–10, 318, 327, 330
constructive
347–9
fundamental question of
8
Lenin’s style of
205–6
responsibility of
161
Soviet
16–17, 35, 36, 76, 85, 113, 115–23, 129, 131–2, 159–62, 192–3, 196, 207, 342
phronesis
352
Piaget, J.
51, 270
Pinkard, T.
203, 358
Pippin, R.
358
platonism
136, 150, 320, 360
Plekhanov, G.V.
205, 211n2
poetry
229, 231
political individualism
234–5
pop art
179–82
positivism
123, 133, 161, 187, 195, 205–6
Prague Spring
161, 207
proletarian science
183
prometheanism
313, 322
psychoanalysis
68, 212
psychological tools
70, 214, 219, 222, 226–7, 230, 232–3, 239, 241–5
Pushkin, A.S.
215n13
quietism
347–9
rationalism
212, 295n45, 344
high
30, 41, 49, 57, 218
in Vygotsky
212, 218–27, 235
realism
146–8, 151–3, 156, 182, 221–2, 228, 276n20, 280
realm of law
236n57, 274, 295
receptivity
249–50, 273–4, 346
recognition
12, 203, 325, 346, 356–9
reductionism
69, 71, 81, 135, 188, 282n1, 323
reflection
251–2, 344, 352
critical
218, 312, 352n47, 354
theory of
192
Reflexology
212, 220n34
revolution
cognitive
270
cultural
76, 183
in Vygotsky studies
77n18, 246
Russian
69n, 96, 182, 195, 317
scientific-technological
8, 109, 165–6, 185
Ricardo, D.
37
Rödl, S.
328, 331n4, 338n1, 350n33
Rorty, R.
142, 276, 278
Rozental’ M.M.
125, 192
Rozhkov, A.
89n3, 109
Rubinshtein, S.L.
31, 50–51, 169–70, 307
Rubstov, V.V.
307
rule following
150, 348, 353
Rumiantsev A.M.
125n41
Ryle, G.
32–3
Samsonova, T.V.
158, 159n
Sandomirskaja, I.
93n17
scepticism
241, 278
rule/meaning
150–52
Shchedrovitsky, G.P.
4, 18
Scheler, M.
211
scientism
133, 135, 142, 156, 206, 222
Searle, J.
285, 290
second nature
84n46, 274, 340–63 passim
self
20–23, 26, 30, 32–5, 47, 95, 224, 244, 265n, 266–9, 279, 292n36
as construct
142, 244, 271, 357–9
autonomous
234–5
dialogical character of
245
elusiveness of
4
moral
62
non-coincidence with
53
riddle of
7–12
social
302
self-consciousness
20, 22–3, 26, 32–4, 39–41, 44, 46–9, 53, 60, 148, 168, 174, 178, 201, 213n4, 244–6, 254, 260, 320–21, 328
and action
330–40 passim
critical
160, 162–3, 300
self-determination
161, 201, 226, 324, 327, 343, 352n47, 362
Sellars, W.
138, 225n39, 272, 344n9
semiotic mediation
71–5, 79, 83–5, 87, 253, 307, 309
Shakenova, E.K.
107–8
Shchipanov, I. Ya.
124
Short Course
113, 122, 196
Shvyrev, V.S.
322
Sirotkin, S.A.
89, 105, 107–8
situated knowledge
230
Skorokhodova, O.I.
97
social relations
140, 164, 215
ensemble of
16–63 passim, 148, 219
socialism with a human face
161, 207
Sokolov, V.V.
158, 159n
Sokolyansky, I.A.
92, 93n17, 96–7, 102, 107–8
Soviet philosophical establishment
109, 113, 123, 126–8, 132, 161–2, 164, 196n14, 304
see also philosophy, Soviet
Soviet psychology
66, 76, 80, 85, 90
see also Vygotsky, L.S.; activity approach/theory
space of reasons
138–9, 142, 152, 154–6, 225, 236, 272–6, 280, 295, 297, 299, 310, 344, 346, 350, 357, 359–60, 362
speech genres
234
Spinoza, B.
138, 159n, 185, 211, 218–21, 321
spontaneity
249–50, 273, 346–7, 359n66
Spufford, F.
113n2
Stalin, J.V.
67, 76, 109, 122–3, 128, 129n61, 192, 196–7, 225
Stalin era
77–9, 87, 108, 183
Stalinism
66, 78–9, 85, 113, 133, 135, 168, 183, 185n18
Standish, P.
341
stilyagi
113, 128
Stout, J.
325–6
Strawson, P.F.
341
subject and object
143, 145n27, 152–3, 190, 310, 319, 321, 327, 330
subjectivism
68–9, 81
subjectivity
12, 56, 185n18, 213, 246, 253, 323
of blind-deaf children
61
of others
57–8, 188–90, 229, 245
substantialism
321, 323
Sullivan, A.
95n
surrealism
182n13
Suvorov, A.V.
5n7, 22, 89, 93n17, 101, 105
Svetlov, V.I.
115
Sypnowich, C.
5n7, 217n24
technology
165, 187, 223, 226, 231, 241
cult/idolatry of
166, 283
new learning
258–9
theory of mind
356
things in themselves
145–7, 190, 199, 311
thinking
active
354
and being in world
11–12
and contradiction
171
and creativity
8
as navigating the ideal/space of reasons
139–40, 167, 170, 310, 320
becoming thinking thing
154, 164, 167, 323, 333
body
138, 202, 321, 329, 333, 338
critical
160–62, 172, 175
excellence in
170, 171n31
life
329, 339
science of
109, 121, 160–63, 329, 338
subject
83–4, 86, 95, 145n27, 167, 170, 320
see also, brainism; personalism; thought
Thompson, M.
327n22, 331n4
thought
activity and
199–203, 310
and abstraction
230
and contradiction
171
and social consciousness
136
and speech
48–9
and the ideal
319–21, 325
as subject of philosophy
ix, 117–18, 120–21, 157, 160, 162, 192, 197–8, 329, 338–9
courage of
x, 160, 165
critical
162, 196n14
forms of
13, 118, 129, 139, 170, 197–202, 227, 232, 299, 324
freedom and
343
habit and
355
human
136, 156, 293, 338
Ilyenkov’s conception of
163–4, 199–200
independence of
124, 160, 165, 174n41, 233, 235
limits to
147–8
location of
11, 282, 289
mediation and
238, 240, 312, 345
non-verbal
69
of others
356
powers of
171n31
subject of
10, 20–23, 72, 140, 144
universality of
296
Vygotsky’s conception of
69–72, 213–16, 219, 230n, 232
world/reality as object of
141, 146, 149–51, 198, 202–3, 240, 273, 274n15, 277, 280, 311, 321, 358
see also personalism; brainism; thinking
thought experiments
23, 26, 35, 39–41, 60
Titunik, I.R.
80
Todorov, T.
81
Togliatti, P.
127
Tolstoy, L.
38–9, 60
Tomasello, M.
215n12
tools
44, 59, 70, 86, 222, 244, 316
theories as
330–31
concepts as
172, 200, 228, 280
see also psychological tools
totality
20, 42, 49, 50, 166, 200, 312
transcendental arguments
143–4, 146, 149
transcendental idealism
146
transcendental unity of apperception
292n36
transformation
dialectical
143, 313
into rational being
154, 293, 295, 327, 341, 346
self-
170, 312
qualitative
27, 71, 214, 219, 229, 293, 295
Tsipko, A.
158, 160, 161n8
Twentieth Party Congress
128, 130, 162
Ukraine
66, 76, 96–7
Ukrainstev, B.S.
207
unit of analysis
42–3, 79, 87, 133n7, 216, 219, 224, 303, 310, 321
unity
in diversity
133n7, 177
of cognitive virtues
186–7
of action and activity
336
of consciousness/mental life
291–2, 295, 349
of experience
253
of logic, dialectics and theory of knowledge
117–18, 163n12, 198n22, 206
of Marxist philosophy
159–60
of nature
232
of opposites
116
of psychological powers
254
of reason and nature
341
of sensibility and understanding
199
of spontaneity and receptivity
249–50, 273, 346
of the rational and the animal
349, 360
of thought and speech
49
of truth, goodness, beauty
179
universal
abstract
222, 230–31
and mind/thought/reason
8, 166–7, 293–4, 296, 333n11
concepts
230
concrete
133n7, 200
forms of thought
13–14
in Hegel
55, 202–203
laws of logic
164n15
Valsiner, J.
66n1, 67n3, 219n29
value
10, 85, 137, 149, 167, 174, 204, 277–8, 310, 319, 320, 348
and dignity of person
312
economic
28, 46, 163, 284
experience permeated by
250, 252
labour theory of
201
of activity
337
van der Veer, R.
66n1, 219n29
Voloshinov, V.N.
65, 67, 87
identity of
80–82
on mind and meaning
82–6
Vygotsky, L.S.
x
and socio-historical school
90, 97
as philosopher
208, 211–12, 235–7
concept of perezhivanie
247–9, 253–4, 259–60
inner speech
12, 43, 48, 244
interpretations of
66–7, 75–80, 220–24, 307–9
on concepts
173n37, 229–31
on freedom and rationality
225–7, 235
on memory
65, 72–5, 81–8, 242
on pedagogy
232–4
on perception
224n38, 240
on responsibility of psychology
89
on science
228–9
on truth
227–8
parallels with McDowell
351, 362
rationalism of
218–20
role in activity theory
304, 330–31, 339
socio-cultural account of mind
12, 17, 68–72, 84, 144, 212–18
turn to meaning
70–71, 215–16, 242–3
vision of progress
231–2
see also crisis in psychology; elementary mental functions; higher mental functions; internalisation; mediation; psychological tools
Warhol, A.
180–82, 190, 315
Wertsch, J.V.
79, 238, 243
Wiggins, D.
227n, 265n, 341
Williams, B.
23
Wittgenstein, L.
35, 132n, 139, 145, 148–53, 171, 276, 289–90, 302, 307, 341, 347–9, 353–5, 356n56
world
alienated
180, 182
as infinite
188
being at home in
156, 361–2
external
10, 27, 140, 154, 198, 270, 273
humanised/idealised/meaningful
12–13, 25, 56, 71, 86–7, 137–9, 143–4, 146, 149–50, 163–4, 167, 189, 216, 224, 242, 296–7, 299, 310, 313, 320, 324–5, 332, 359–61
independence of
136, 138, 141, 146–8, 151, 199, 221, 228
individual subject in
7, 10, 31, 46, 50–51, 188, 220, 349
inner
9–10, 56, 68, 95, 198, 270, 273
noumenal
145–7, 199
orientation in
11–12, 155, 291–3, 354
phenomenal
145, 199
point of view on
12, 30–31, 354
relation of mind and
14, 70–71, 136, 140–41, 145, 151, 154, 157, 200–203, 227–8, 238–9, 241, 245–6, 269, 271–5, 280, 310–12, 319–24, 333, 346
thinking as navigating
11–12, 146, 186, 190, 281, 283, 359
Yarmolenko, A.V.
91–2, 108
Yaroshevksy, M.G.
236
Yasnitsky, A.
66n, 77n18
Zagorsk (Sergiev Posad)
School
93n17, 104–105
experiment
108
zakonomernost’
45, 117n21, 118n26, 120n36
Zaporozhets, A.V.
85, 90, 97, 102
Zavershneva, E.
80n28
Zelený, J.
133n7
Zhdanov, A.A.
122n42, 129n61
Zinchenko, P.I.
76, 78–9, 307
Zinchenko, V.P.
79, 85, 90, 307, 323
Zinoviev, A.A.
134, 192