[Xmca-l] Отв: Development of adults

[Alexander Surmava]

Dear Ulvi
I think it's pointless to look for books about the development of adults among treatises on "psychology".  The best books on this topic were written by William Shakespeare and John Byron, Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, Emil Zola and Stendhal. And yet, all the philosophers wrote about the development of adults. But not modern philosophers positivists and postmodernists, but philosophers belonging to classical philosophy. From Thales and Anaxagoras, to Spinoza, Hegel and Marx. To the connoisseurs of the human soul, I would classify the classics of political economy - Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jean Charles Sismondi. And again, Marx with Engels, and Ilyenkov.I agree with Andy, only Leontiev is worth reading from psychologists. But even in case of Leontiev it's worth to reed his texts in the last turn. After all of the above.Personality is what its activity is. And human activity develops not according to the mythical "laws of the psyche", but in the system of real historically established relationships with other people about the joint production of their common life, and therefore according to the laws studied by political economy, history, legal science, according to the laws of nature at last.The best "psychological" books on the psychology of adults - this is not science, but bad bellectristics. Do not waste time reading bad literatue if you can read GOOD literature.Enjoy reading,Sasha

      От: Ulvi İçil <ulvi.icil@gmail.com>
 Кому: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu> 
 Отправлено: четверг, 16 ноября 2017 16:20
 Тема: [Xmca-l] Development of adults
  
Can anyone propose one or two good books on develeopment beyond adolescence
please, a similar one to mike's development of children?
Thanks.
Ulvi