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| | || The Communication Review || Volume 1, Number 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Ilyenkov's life and work are described, with particular attention to his analysis of Marx's "method of ascent from the abstract to the concrete" and his account of the nature of "ideal" (nonmaterial) phenomena. |
 | | Ilyenkov exploits Marx's concept of "objectification" to argue that, by transforming nature in activity, human beings write meaning and value into the very structure of their world, creating objectively existing "spiritual cultures." It is, he maintains, only through the appropriation of culture that the human child becomes a thinking being. |
 | | The paper then explores five "lessons" from Ilyenkov's philosophy relevant to the development of communication as an "interdiscipline": (1) on interdisciplinarity, (2) on the nature and role of philosophy, (3) on the relation of mind and world, (4) on realism and relativism, and (5) on method. |
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