RE: Professor Alexander Spirkin

From: Stetsenko, Anna (AStetsenko@gc.cuny.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 09:45:12 PDT

i think he was one of the many 'traditional' marxist philosophers in the
soviet union in the 60s and 70s. i don't recall him standing out of this
traiditonal crowd. i know he has a daughter who is a psychologist now
working somewhere in england.

-----Original Message-----
From: N [mailto:vygotsky@charter.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:28 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Professor Alexander Spirkin

Does Professor Alexander Spirkin trigger any reaction from those
familiar with Soviet Philosophy?

N 

-- 
There is no hope of finding the sources of free action in the lofty realms
of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach of the
phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the naturalists.
To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to go outside the
limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of the mind, but into
the objective forms of social life; it is necessary to seek the sources of
human consciousness and freedom in the social history of humanity. To find
the soul it is necessary to lose it. 
A.R. Luria

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