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On the other hand, Ilyenkovs work (especially his masterpiece, the study on Dialectics of the Abstract and the
Concrete in Marxs Capital from 1960, and the collection
of essays entitled Dialectical Logic from 1974) deeply inuenced the reception of Marx' economic writings from
the 1960s onwards, in the Soviet Union and the GDR as
well as in the West. His inuence can be witnessed in
the international research eort concerned with the publication of Marx' economic manuscripts (in Marx/Engels:
Gesamtausgabe, or MEGA, section II, 1976 .). His inuence is also evident in the intense debates on economic
reform that was going on in the Soviet Union in the 1970s
(e.g., in the works of A. K. Pokrytan).
Evald Ilyenkov did original work on the materialist development of Hegel's dialectics, notable for his account
of concrete universals. His works include Dialectical
Logic (Russian, 1974; English trans. 1977), Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics of Positivism (Russian, 1980
(posthum.); English trans. 1982) and The Dialectics of the
Abstract and Concrete in Marxs Capital (Russian, 1960;
English trans. 1982). Ilyenkov committed suicide in
1979.
David Bakhurst wrote in his article; Meaning, Normativity and the Life of Mind":
Ilyenkovs works have been published in about 20 languages. His Dialectical Logic (1974) was published in
English by Progress Publishers in Moscow in 1977. A
German translation of his Dialectics of the Abstract and
the Concrete in Marxs Capital (1960), was published by
the same publisher in 1979 (and simultaneously by Das
europische Buch, West Berlin); an English translation
of the book was published by Progress Publishers in
Moscow in 1982. Leninist Dialectics and the Metaphysics
of Positivism (rst published in Russian in 1980) was published by New Park Publications in 1982.
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1974. From the Marxist-Leninist Point of View
1974. The Universal
1974. A Contribution to a Conversation About Esthetic Education
1975. A Contribution to a Conversation About
Meshcheriakov
1975. Humanism and Science
1976. Dialectics of the Ideal
1977. Concept of the Ideal
1979. The problem of contradiction in logic (fragment)
1979. Materialism Is Militant and Therefore Dialectical
Date unknown. Psychology
Date unknown. Our Schools Must Teach How to
Think!
Date unknown. A Contribution to the Discussion on
School Education
Date unknown. On the Nature of Ability
Date unknown. The Biological and the Social in
Man
Date unknown. A Contribution on the Question of
the Concept of Activity and Its Signicance for
Pedagogy
Date unknown. Knowledge and Thinking
REFERENCES
About Ilyenkov
Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative
Soviet Marxism (Historical Materialism Book Series) by Alex Levant
Evald Ilyenkovs Philosophy Revisited, (Kikimora
publications) by Vesa Oittinen (Dec 2000)
Consciousness and Revolution in Soviet Philosophy:
From the Bolsheviks to Evald Ilyenkov, by David
Bakhurst (Jun 28, 1991)
E. Ilyenkov and the Deaf-Blind Children:Soviet
Psychologists Show Pavlov the Door, by Susan
Welsh (1977).
4 See also
Philosophy in the Soviet Union
Aleksandr Zinovyev
Merab Mamardashvili
Gyrgy Lukcs
Lev Vygotsky
Bertell Ollman
5 References
Ilyenkov, E.V., The Ideal in Human Activity, includes Dialectical Logic and essays on the ideal
and activity, such as The Universal, Activity
and Knowledge and The Concept of the Ideal,
published by Erythrospress, see Erythrospress.com/
Ilyenkov
External links
Evald Ilyenkov Archive at Marxist Internet Archive
Biography including Archive of Writings in English/Russian
Evald Ilyenkov in the Gallery of Russian Thinkers
A Philosopher Under Suspicion by Sergei Mareyev
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