Fundamental Problems of the Sociology of Thinking - Paperback

by Konstantin Megrelidze (Author), Craig Brandist (Editor), Jeff Skinner (Translator)

Written at the height of the purges, but unpublished for decades, Megrelidze's text is arguably the most significant, erudite and wide-ranging work of Marxist philosophy written in the USSR at the time.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 Biography

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.