Alex Levant
Biographic Data
| ID | 4244265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Levant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Levant |
| SIGNATURE | LEVANT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Activity Theory Meets New Materialist Philosophy in Cathrine Hasse'sAn Anthropology of Learning
Cathrine Hasse’s (2015) An Anthropology of Learning: On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies is a critical addition to this year’s reading lists of those working across a broad range of fields, i
Dialectics of the Ideal
In Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism Levant and Oittinen provide a window into the subterranean tradition of ‘creative’ Soviet Marxism, which developed on the margins of the Soviet academe and remains largely outside the orbit of contemporary theory in the West. With his ‘activity approach’, E.V. Ilyenkov, its principal figure in the post-Stalin period, makes a substantial contribution toward an anti-reductionist…
Dialectics of the Ideal
E.V. Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Theory
This article aims to introduce E.V. Ilyenkov’s ‘Dialectics of the Ideal’, first published in unabridged form in 2009, to an English-speaking readership. It does this in three ways: First, it contextualises his intervention in the history of Soviet and post-Soviet philosophy, offering a window into the subterranean tradition of creative theory that existed on the margins and in opposition to official Diamat . It explains what distinguishes Ilyenko…
From the History of Soviet Philosophy
This review-essay explores the subterranean tradition of ‘creative Soviet Marxism’ 1 through a recent book by the Russian philosopher Sergey Mareev, From the History of Soviet Philosophy: Lukács - Vygotsky - Ilyenkov (2008). It provides a brief overview of the history of Soviet philosophy so as to orient the reader to a set of debates that continue to be largely unexplored in the Western-Marxist tradition. Mareev offers a new account of the devel…
Activity Theory Meets New Materialist Philosophy in Cathrine Hasse'sAn Anthropology of Learning
Cathrine Hasse’s (2015) An Anthropology of Learning: On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies is a critical addition to this year’s reading lists of those working across a broad range of fields, i
E.V. Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Theory
This article aims to introduce E.V. Ilyenkov’s ‘Dialectics of the Ideal’, first published in unabridged form in 2009, to an English-speaking readership. It does this in three ways: First, it contextualises his intervention in the history of Soviet and post-Soviet philosophy, offering a window into the subterranean tradition of creative theory that existed on the margins and in opposition to official Diamat . It explains what distinguishes Ilyenko…
From the History of Soviet Philosophy
This review-essay explores the subterranean tradition of ‘creative Soviet Marxism’ 1 through a recent book by the Russian philosopher Sergey Mareev, From the History of Soviet Philosophy: Lukács - Vygotsky - Ilyenkov (2008). It provides a brief overview of the history of Soviet philosophy so as to orient the reader to a set of debates that continue to be largely unexplored in the Western-Marxist tradition. Mareev offers a new account of the devel…
E.V. Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Theory
This article aims to introduce E.V. Ilyenkov’s ‘Dialectics of the Ideal’, first published in unabridged form in 2009, to an English-speaking readership. It does this in three ways: First, it contextualises his intervention in the history of Soviet and post-Soviet philosophy, offering a window into the subterranean tradition of creative theory that existed on the margins and in opposition to official Diamat . It explains what distinguishes Ilyenko…
Dialectics of the Ideal
Dialectics of the Ideal
In Dialectics of the Ideal: Evald Ilyenkov and Creative Soviet Marxism Levant and Oittinen provide a window into the subterranean tradition of ‘creative’ Soviet Marxism, which developed on the margins of the Soviet academe and remains largely outside the orbit of contemporary theory in the West. With his ‘activity approach’, E.V. Ilyenkov, its principal figure in the post-Stalin period, makes a substantial contribution toward an anti-reductionist…
Activity Theory Meets New Materialist Philosophy in Cathrine Hasse'sAn Anthropology of Learning
Cathrine Hasse’s (2015) An Anthropology of Learning: On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies is a critical addition to this year’s reading lists of those working across a broad range of fields, i
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Dialectic (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Marxist philosophy (3 works) · Materialism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works)