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This chapter narrates how in the wake of a resurgence of Marxist Enlightenment in European universities in the 1970s, the Danish general psychology project was greatly facilitated by the discovery of Lev S. Vygotsky and his Cultural-historical activity theory school. In particular, how Alexei N. Leontiev’s psycho-phylogenetic activity model as a virtual mirror image of Aristotle’s bio-psychological taxonomy became a key? The author’s suggested model of general psychology is a combination of Aristotle’s and Leontiev’s models and presented in the end.
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Marx (1845, 3).
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Fukuyama (1992).
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Marx and Engels (1848).
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Vygotsky (1978, p. 8).
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Leontiev (1997, p. 25).
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Luria (1976).
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Luria (1966).
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In Wertsch (1985, p. 90).
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Leontiev and Leontiev (2003).
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That which is to be explained and not merely that which explains.
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Gazzaniga (1998, pp. xi–xii).
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Mammen and Mironenko (2015).
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Leontiev (1981).
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Spencer (1870, p. 291).
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I am not an Aristotle scholar. The ideas Aristotle’s work evoked, rather than what he precisely said and meant, have been my guide. This, of course, is the usual way great works have been received and made the base of progress when built upon by subsequent generations, they fall victim to interpretation, construal, and free associations.
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Engelsted (1980).
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Engelsted, N. (2017). Marxism and General Psychology. In: Catching Up With Aristotle . SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51088-0_3
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