Description
Written at the height of the purges, but unpublished for decades, Megrelidze's text is arguably the most significant, erudite and wide-ranging work of Marxist philosophy written in the USSR at the time. Discussing the emergence and development of human consciousness from the origins of humanity to the rise of capitalism, Megrelidze discusses the major achievements of contemporary cognitive science, sociology, philosophy and linguistics in the light of the works of Marx and Engels that were being published at the time. Far from the rigidities of official 'diamat', the book illuminates the important debates in Soviet intellectual life that led to the works of figures such as Vygotsky and members of the 'Bakhtin Circle'.
Author: Konstantin Megrelidze
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 10/27/2023
Pages: 457
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d
ISBN13: 9781642599985
ISBN10: 1642599980
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
- Social Science | Anthropology | General
- Social Science | Sociology | General
About the Author
Konstantin Megrelidze, born in Georgia in 1900, was a major philosopher of the Soviet Union, whose works in the 1930s exercised a significant influence on the most innovative currents of later Soviet philosophy and psychology.