Re: [xmca] A funny quote: Luria, A.N. Leontiev, & Velichkovsky :)

[Steve Gabosch <stevegabosch@me.com>]

Interesting anecdotal story.  It raises a question I am very curious  
about.  What is known of Luria's assessment of Leontiev's activity  
theory and theory of animal psychic evolution?
- Steve



On Jan 5, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Anton Yasnitsky wrote:

> I just came across this text and thought this might be of some  
> interest to some people out there. In his interview about A.N.  
> Leontiev taken on September 12, 2002 Boris Velichkovsky mentioned  
> inter alia  that "Alexander Romanovich [Luria] once quite harshly  
> put it in my presence that he did not consider as related to  
> scientific research anything that Leontiev was doing from the  
> beginning of the 1940s onwards". Literally, --
>
> Алек сандр Ро ма но вич од на ж ды до  
> воль но же ст ко ска зал в мо ем при сут  
> ст вии,
> что не счи та ет то, что де ла ет Ле он  
> ть ев с на ча ла 40‑х го дов имею щим
> от но ше ние к нау ке ( http://www.anleontiev.smysl.ru/vospom 
> in/i-velich.htm )
>
> Just I guess some food for thought about the school of Vygotsky- 
> Leontiev-Luria (not sure about the canonical order of the names) and  
> the theoretical foundations of the so-called CHAT :)...
>
>
>
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