Leontiev about Matter and Consciousness: His Critique of Vygotsky in the Soviet context

Abstract

<jats:p>Abstract Closing out a set of six articles, this text presents a descriptive analysis of Leontiev’s career between 1936-7 in the context of the profound changes caused by the Decree against Pedology and subsequent public campaign against the Vygotskian legacy. This paper seeks to outline the meaning of this campaign within the sinister context of the Soviet Great Purge and place Leontiev’s main critical text of Vygotsky in the context of the enforcement of a “pure and genuine” Marxism-Leninism on the sciences. We claim that Leontiev confused the ontological and epistemological problem of the relationship of consciousness to matter, reflecting the Stalinist divisions between them. When Leontiev moved away from Vygotsky’s legacy, he pursued a dualist, objectivist, and mechanistic inflection of Vygotsky’s psychological materialism.</jats:p>

The Phenomenon of "Ecological Self-Awareness" and Its Influence on Ecological Tourism

“…In our research we drew on studies of the authors who considered the current problems of the theory and practice of education in the field of the environment and other diverse areas of the humanities: philosophy and global problems of ecology (Weaver, 2005). The works of contemporary authors were of particular interest Eshun et al, 2020;Higham et al, 2003;Sergeeva, 2004;Szente et al, 2021;Toassa, 2019;Weaver et al, 2007;Zielinski et al, 2020). These authors consider a wide range of issues that can be important for the scientific foundation of phenomenon of eco tourism Eshun et al, 2020;Higham et al, 2003;Sergeeva, 2004;Szente et al, 2021;Toassa,2019;Weaver et al, 2007;Zielinski et al, 2020).…”

“…Consequently, the problem of finding means and techniques to stimulate the development of ecological self-awareness becomes urgent (Weaver, 2005). Also the growth of ecotourism in the world has eventually predetermined the formation of ecological selfawareness of people (Toassa, 2019). Ecological self-awareness of an individual has a complex structure and includes the following components (Sergeeva, 2004):…”