A Maidansky
Biographic Data
| ID | 36629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Maidansky |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Maidansky |
| SIGNATURE | MAIDANSKY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Belgorod National Research University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2061-3878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Development of the Concept of Perezhivanie (Emotional Experience) in Vygotsky’s Works / La evolución del concepto de perezhivanie (experiencia emocional) en la obra de Vygotski
The cultural-historical theory of perezhivanie emerges from the psychology of art and the theory of education. Premised on the social nature of human consciousness, Vygotsky studies aesthetic and moral perezhivaniya . He concludes that perezhivanie is an emotion that is shared with others. In infants, consciousness arises from the perezhivanie of joint activities with the mother. Around 1930, Vygotsky’s theory shifted towards affects. In perezhiv…
Ingrowing and interiorization in cultural-historical psychology
The Problem of the Beginning in Dialectical Logic
This article discusses Zhabaikhan Abdildin’s philosophical works on the “problem of the beginning”. This problem arises in any mature science, and philosophy solves it in a general, logical form. The author of the article demonstrates the difficulties that arise in this process and how Abdildin resolves them in his works, starting with the monograph “The Problem of the Beginning in Theoretical Cognition” (1967). For philosophy, the question from …
Lev Vygotsky on “psychological physiology”
This article discusses the publication of Lev Vygotsky’s speech delivered at the debate held following Karl S. Lashley’s lecture on 20 April 1931. The evolution of the concept of psychological physiology in Vygotsky’s notebooks and the works of Alexander Luria is outlined briefly. The author demonstrates how Vygotsky resolved the problem of localising psychological functions — a subject of dispute between Karl Lashley and Ivan Pavlov. The princip…
Hegel in the Mirrors of Soviet Philosophy
The attitude towards Hegel in Soviet philosophy was contradictory and depended to a considerable extent on the ideological state of affairs. Waves of love and hate for Hegel alternated periodically. At different times, emphasis was placed on the “revolutionary” method, or on dialectics, or on the “reactionary” system, the justification of the old world. On one page, Lenin would admire Hegel’s logical discoveries, on the next, he would scold him i…
On the system of categories of the Cultural-Historical Psychology
The article discusses the systemic structure of the Cultural-Historical Psychology (CHP). At its “core” lies the concept of personality as “the social within us”, introduced by L.S. Vygotsky in contrast to the traditional notion of personality as a collection of individual psychological traits. By identifying a number of system-forming categories of the CHP, the authors examine their interrelations and their role in the formation and development …
Spinoza’s Doctrine of Affect in Cultural-Historical Psychology
Spinoza regarded life as an active play of affects, and human freedom as the taming of passions by means of the concepts of reason. Following him, Lev Vygotsky treats affect as the alpha and omega of mental development. The key theme of Vygotsky’s last manuscripts is the same as in Spinoza’s The Ethics: man’s path to freedom via the reasonable mastery of his affects. Vygotsky defines freedom as the affect in the concept; in the last years of his …
Discoveries of Evald Ilyenkov’s Home Archive
The article is a study of Ilyenkov’s archival papers published in his Collected Works. In the drafts of his dissertation (1950–1953), Marx’s Paris manuscripts of 1844, at that time published only in German, were discussed for the first time in Russian philosophy. Ilyenkov focuses on the concepts of “contemplation” and human subjectivity as a form of “practical-spiritual mastery of the world” (the term of the mature Marx). The distinction between …
The Concept of Ingrowing in the Theory of Development of Higher Psychological Functions
The author examines the concept of ingrowing in Lev Vygotsky’s cultural-historical psychology. The theoretical significance of his metaphors of ingrowing and gardening, and the connection between the terms “ingrowing” and “interiorisation” are revealed. The plain criterion for evaluating the success of ingrowing higher psychological functions is found in the development of verbal thinking. By analysing the concepts of interpsychic and intrapsychi…
Years of the Development of Cultural-Historical Psychology: Milestones and Directions
The article gives a brief overview of the emergence and development of the cultural-historical theory of higher psychological functions over the century after it was created. Lev Vygotsky began the development of his theory with the study of the instrumental function of “cultural signs” (primarily words) and therefore he gave it the name “instrumental psychology”. The formation of human personality was understood by Vygotsky as the “ingrowing” of…
Evald Ilyenkov on Freedom of Will
Evald Ilyenkov’s works explores the issue of free will within the framework of activity theory. According to him, the concept of freedom is linked to the general activity of living beings in the external world and to the purposeful nature of this activity. Human freedom, or the ‘freedom of the will’, is treated as acting in accordance with the “purpose of the species”, that is, the interests of human society. The will is a psychological function …
The concept of reason in the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza
Spinoza teaches that the nature of things expresses itself in two ways: in motion and in the world of bodies, on the one hand, and in the intellect with its world of ideas, on the other. Physical bodies are in perpetual motion – arising, changing, disappearing; since the human body also participates in these processes, they are perceived by senses. Spinoza calls the knowledge of sensual properties and duration of the existence of bodies “imaginat…
Thinking and labour (reading Vygotsky)
Lev Vygotsky connected the development of “higher forms of thinking” with labour, and claimed that this connection is “central and basic”, allowing to unfold the peculiarities of children’s thinking and the new in adolescent’s mind. Meanwhile, the concept of labour in Vygotsky’s works has not been investigated so far. This article traces the “genetic nodes that connect together the child’s thinking and practical activity” (Vygotsky), starting wit…
Saving philosopher Descartes: Valentin Asmus as a guardian of culture
Vygotsky on cultural-historical development: From the primitive to the superhuman ( Vygotski y el desarrollo histórico-cultural: del hombre primitivo al superhombre )
In recent years, Vygotsky’s theory of the historical development from the ‘primitive’ through the ‘cultural man’ and on to the ‘superhuman’ has been subjected to keen criticism. In the concept of the primitive, colonialistic arrogance and even racism are discovered, and the concept of the superhuman is attributed to the influence of Nietzsche and Marxist revolutionary utopias. Vygotsky’s criticism of the modern ‘cultural man’ is virtually ignored…
Spinoza in Late-Soviet philosophy
James D. WHITE. Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine
The “Revisionist Revolution” and Future Prospects of Vygotskian Studies
This article provides critical analysis of A. Yasnitsky’s project of “Cultural-Historical Gestalt Psychology.” He uses this term to describe Vygotsky’s biggest discovery and the future of Vygotsky studies. Yasnitsky discards the activity approach to studying the human mind and reduces the social nature of personality to an “aspect” that did not receive serious elaboration in Vygotsky’s works. In the present article, it is argued that the prospect…
Practical Materialism” in Understanding Thinking: E.V. Ilyenkov and F.T. Mikhailov
F.T. Mikhailov called E.V. Ilyenkov ‘the first of us’ and was guided in his work on The Riddle of the Self by the dialectical logic Ilyenkov developed — the objective-oriented activity theory of thinking. The article explores the differences between the two editions of this book 'and discusses the concept of ‘practical’ materialism opposing ‘somatic’ materialism. The latter considers organic body, which is gifted to man by nature, to be the subje…
Foreword to the Publication
Cultural-Historical Psychology is continuing its publication of the transcripts of L.S. Vygotsky’s lectures on child psychology at the Academy of Communist Education in 1928 (the first two lectures were published in the previous issue). In addition to the results of Vygotsky’s own research, these lectures also provide an overview of the concepts and experiments by Titchener, Lewin, Piaget and other famous psychologists. The complex theoretical ma…
Unseen Life of the Intellect
Vygotsky’s Notebooks is a selection of handwritten notes by the founding father of Marxist cultural-historical psychology, with a foreword and detailed commentary provided by the volume’s editors, Ekaterina Zavershneva and René van der Veer. The tasks of deciphering and analyzing the notes took over ten years, and the editors distributed the notes into thematic and chronological series that give a detailed periodization of Vygotsky’s work, includ…
Evald Ilyenkov and Soviet Philosophy
Vesa Oittinen interviews Andrey Maidansky about Soviet philosophy and the well-known and controversial Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov (1924–79)
Thought and Language in Ilyenkov’s Logic
Spinoza in cultural-historical psychology
The article retraces the fate of Spinoza’s ideas in cultural-historical psychology, from the late works of Lev Vygotsky to Evald Ilyenkov. Following Spinoza, Vygotsky considers affect to be the alpha and omega of all psychic development. The central problem both of Ethics and of Vygotsky’s last manuscripts is the way to freedom by means of the rational mastering of affects. Vygotsky died before he could carry out his project of a “new psychology”…
L.S. Vygotsky’s “Cultural Psychology” through the Lens of Spinoza and Marx
The book under review critically reconstructs the methodology of L.S. Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory that traces back to Spinoza and Marx. The second and third parts of the book focus on the experiences of applying the conceptual framework of this theory in the field of psychology of art and pedagogics. The book by S.N. Mareyev appears to be not so much a commentary to Vygotsky’s texts as a critical analysis of the concepts of cultural psy…
The Russian Spinozists
Metamorphoses of the Ideal
Evald Ilyenkov on Freedom of Will
Evald Ilyenkov’s works explores the issue of free will within the framework of activity theory. According to him, the concept of freedom is linked to the general activity of living beings in the external world and to the purposeful nature of this activity. Human freedom, or the ‘freedom of the will’, is treated as acting in accordance with the “purpose of the species”, that is, the interests of human society. The will is a psychological function …
Saving philosopher Descartes: Valentin Asmus as a guardian of culture
Spinoza in Late-Soviet philosophy
Unseen Life of the Intellect
Vygotsky’s Notebooks is a selection of handwritten notes by the founding father of Marxist cultural-historical psychology, with a foreword and detailed commentary provided by the volume’s editors, Ekaterina Zavershneva and René van der Veer. The tasks of deciphering and analyzing the notes took over ten years, and the editors distributed the notes into thematic and chronological series that give a detailed periodization of Vygotsky’s work, includ…
The Russian Spinozists
Metamorphoses of the Ideal
An interview with Dmitri Gutov
The aesthetic realism of Mikhail Lifshits: Art, history and the communist ideal
Mikhail Lifshits: An enigmatic Marxist
Spinoza in cultural-historical psychology
The article retraces the fate of Spinoza’s ideas in cultural-historical psychology, from the late works of Lev Vygotsky to Evald Ilyenkov. Following Spinoza, Vygotsky considers affect to be the alpha and omega of all psychic development. The central problem both of Ethics and of Vygotsky’s last manuscripts is the way to freedom by means of the rational mastering of affects. Vygotsky died before he could carry out his project of a “new psychology”…
L.S. Vygotsky’s “Cultural Psychology” through the Lens of Spinoza and Marx
The book under review critically reconstructs the methodology of L.S. Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory that traces back to Spinoza and Marx. The second and third parts of the book focus on the experiences of applying the conceptual framework of this theory in the field of psychology of art and pedagogics. The book by S.N. Mareyev appears to be not so much a commentary to Vygotsky’s texts as a critical analysis of the concepts of cultural psy…
Evald Ilyenkov’s ‘Creative Marxism’
The latest book by Russian philosopher Sergey Mareev consists of two parts: recollections of his teacher Evald Ilyenkov, and reflections on some of the key themes of Ilyenkov’s philosophical heritage. The author traces several polemical lines related to the problem of the ideal (Ilyenkov versus Losev and Lifschitz), dialectics of the abstract and the concrete, the principle of historicism, as well as Ilyenkov’s interpretation of Spinoza and Hegel
Thought and Language in Ilyenkov’s Logic
Evald Ilyenkov and Soviet Philosophy
Vesa Oittinen interviews Andrey Maidansky about Soviet philosophy and the well-known and controversial Soviet philosopher Evald Ilyenkov (1924–79)
James D. WHITE. Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine
The “Revisionist Revolution” and Future Prospects of Vygotskian Studies
This article provides critical analysis of A. Yasnitsky’s project of “Cultural-Historical Gestalt Psychology.” He uses this term to describe Vygotsky’s biggest discovery and the future of Vygotsky studies. Yasnitsky discards the activity approach to studying the human mind and reduces the social nature of personality to an “aspect” that did not receive serious elaboration in Vygotsky’s works. In the present article, it is argued that the prospect…
Practical Materialism” in Understanding Thinking: E.V. Ilyenkov and F.T. Mikhailov
F.T. Mikhailov called E.V. Ilyenkov ‘the first of us’ and was guided in his work on The Riddle of the Self by the dialectical logic Ilyenkov developed — the objective-oriented activity theory of thinking. The article explores the differences between the two editions of this book 'and discusses the concept of ‘practical’ materialism opposing ‘somatic’ materialism. The latter considers organic body, which is gifted to man by nature, to be the subje…
Foreword to the Publication
Cultural-Historical Psychology is continuing its publication of the transcripts of L.S. Vygotsky’s lectures on child psychology at the Academy of Communist Education in 1928 (the first two lectures were published in the previous issue). In addition to the results of Vygotsky’s own research, these lectures also provide an overview of the concepts and experiments by Titchener, Lewin, Piaget and other famous psychologists. The complex theoretical ma…
Unseen Life of the Intellect
Vygotsky’s Notebooks is a selection of handwritten notes by the founding father of Marxist cultural-historical psychology, with a foreword and detailed commentary provided by the volume’s editors, Ekaterina Zavershneva and René van der Veer. The tasks of deciphering and analyzing the notes took over ten years, and the editors distributed the notes into thematic and chronological series that give a detailed periodization of Vygotsky’s work, includ…
Vygotsky on cultural-historical development: From the primitive to the superhuman ( Vygotski y el desarrollo histórico-cultural: del hombre primitivo al superhombre )
In recent years, Vygotsky’s theory of the historical development from the ‘primitive’ through the ‘cultural man’ and on to the ‘superhuman’ has been subjected to keen criticism. In the concept of the primitive, colonialistic arrogance and even racism are discovered, and the concept of the superhuman is attributed to the influence of Nietzsche and Marxist revolutionary utopias. Vygotsky’s criticism of the modern ‘cultural man’ is virtually ignored…
Spinoza in Late-Soviet philosophy
The concept of reason in the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza
Spinoza teaches that the nature of things expresses itself in two ways: in motion and in the world of bodies, on the one hand, and in the intellect with its world of ideas, on the other. Physical bodies are in perpetual motion – arising, changing, disappearing; since the human body also participates in these processes, they are perceived by senses. Spinoza calls the knowledge of sensual properties and duration of the existence of bodies “imaginat…
Thinking and labour (reading Vygotsky)
Lev Vygotsky connected the development of “higher forms of thinking” with labour, and claimed that this connection is “central and basic”, allowing to unfold the peculiarities of children’s thinking and the new in adolescent’s mind. Meanwhile, the concept of labour in Vygotsky’s works has not been investigated so far. This article traces the “genetic nodes that connect together the child’s thinking and practical activity” (Vygotsky), starting wit…
Saving philosopher Descartes: Valentin Asmus as a guardian of culture
Spinoza’s Doctrine of Affect in Cultural-Historical Psychology
Spinoza regarded life as an active play of affects, and human freedom as the taming of passions by means of the concepts of reason. Following him, Lev Vygotsky treats affect as the alpha and omega of mental development. The key theme of Vygotsky’s last manuscripts is the same as in Spinoza’s The Ethics: man’s path to freedom via the reasonable mastery of his affects. Vygotsky defines freedom as the affect in the concept; in the last years of his …
Discoveries of Evald Ilyenkov’s Home Archive
The article is a study of Ilyenkov’s archival papers published in his Collected Works. In the drafts of his dissertation (1950–1953), Marx’s Paris manuscripts of 1844, at that time published only in German, were discussed for the first time in Russian philosophy. Ilyenkov focuses on the concepts of “contemplation” and human subjectivity as a form of “practical-spiritual mastery of the world” (the term of the mature Marx). The distinction between …
The Concept of Ingrowing in the Theory of Development of Higher Psychological Functions
The author examines the concept of ingrowing in Lev Vygotsky’s cultural-historical psychology. The theoretical significance of his metaphors of ingrowing and gardening, and the connection between the terms “ingrowing” and “interiorisation” are revealed. The plain criterion for evaluating the success of ingrowing higher psychological functions is found in the development of verbal thinking. By analysing the concepts of interpsychic and intrapsychi…
Years of the Development of Cultural-Historical Psychology: Milestones and Directions
The article gives a brief overview of the emergence and development of the cultural-historical theory of higher psychological functions over the century after it was created. Lev Vygotsky began the development of his theory with the study of the instrumental function of “cultural signs” (primarily words) and therefore he gave it the name “instrumental psychology”. The formation of human personality was understood by Vygotsky as the “ingrowing” of…
Evald Ilyenkov on Freedom of Will
Evald Ilyenkov’s works explores the issue of free will within the framework of activity theory. According to him, the concept of freedom is linked to the general activity of living beings in the external world and to the purposeful nature of this activity. Human freedom, or the ‘freedom of the will’, is treated as acting in accordance with the “purpose of the species”, that is, the interests of human society. The will is a psychological function …
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