Talking Hands Ilyenkov at Zagorsk

.. . the perspective of Mescheryakov and Ilyenkov is best captured by the following four tenets: (1) the mental life of thehuman individual exists in the forms of its expression; that is, certain species of activity constitute the exercise of mental functions. These activities share, among other things, the fact that they are socially significant; (2) language is an essentially social phenomenon, in at least the sense that the possibility of language presupposes the existence of a socially forged communicative medium; (3) this set of shared social meanings represents a culture. Cultures are real phenomena constituted by socially significant forms of activity of a community; (4) it is only through the appropriation, or internalization, of such socially significant forms of activity that the child becomes a conscious being. ИСТОЧНИК: