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Author:   Manolis Dafermos
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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9783032069191

ISBN 10:   303206919
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   25 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A Preliminary Conceptual Outline of the Dialectic.- Chapter 3.  Spontaneous Dialectic: Insights from Eastern Thought.- Chapter 4. Exploring Spontaneous Dialectic in Ancient Greece.- Chapter 5. Dialectics Across the Middle Ages and Renaissance.- Chapter 6 Metaphysics and Dialectics: Navigating the Landscape of the Rise of Modern Science.- Chapter 7. Exploring Dialectics in Classical German Philosophy.- Chapter 8. From Idealist to Materialist Dialectics: Karl Marx's Critical Engagement.- Chapter 9. The Eclipse of Dialectics: Rejections in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.- Chapter 10. Dialectic Amidst Social Transformation.- Chapter 11. The Adventures of Dialectics in Western Marxism.- Chapter 12.  The Analytic Tortoise Confronts the Hegelian Serpent.- Chapter 13. Deconstructing Dialectics in the Postmodern Condition.- Chapter 14. The Return of Dialectics: Beyond the 'End of History'.

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Manolis Dafermos is Professor of Epistemology of Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Crete, Greece. He completed his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is the author of Rethinking Cultural-Historical Theory: A Dialectical Perspective to Vygotsky (2018) and co-editor of Revisiting Vygotsky for Social Change: Bringing Together Theory and Practice (2020). He has authored and co-authored numerous articles and book chapters in international journals and edited volumes. His work has been published in Greek, English, German, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Farsi. He served on the Executive Committee of the International Society of Cultural-Historical Activity Research and is a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Human Arenas, Theory & Psychology, Outlines: Critical Practice Studies, Cultural-Historical Psychology, and Culture & Education.

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