Farewell to the Zagorsk experiment

Maxim Morozov

doi:10.24151/2409-1073-2024-4-117-132

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FAREWELL TO THE ZAGORSK EXPERIMENT Farewell to the Zagorsk experiment

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Published in Economic and Social Research · ELocator: MJFXUQ · Rubric: Philosophy: Universe in Human and Human in Universe

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24151/2409-1073-2024-4-117-132 · EDN: MJFXUQ

Received: 26.11.2024 Accepted: 11.04.2025 Published: 11.04.2025

Authors

Maxim Morozov

Academic degree: candidate of philosophical sciences

Science rang: docent

The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Associate Professor · Department of Theoretical Sociology and Epistemology · Russian Federation · Moscow

ABSTRACT

The author problematizes the status of “experiment” that is constantly used to characterize the work of E. V. Ilyenkov and A. I. Meshcheryakov with blind deaf-mute educatees in the Zagorsk boarding school. Some arguments of Ilyenkov’s opponents are critically examined. An attempt is made to identify the nature and limits of the Zagorsk experiment, to show its significance going beyond the bounds of defectology. The adequacy of understanding of the soul as an unsolvable mystery has been questioned, and the specificity of its understanding by Ilyenkov from materialist positions is analyzed. In conclusion the author discusses the questions posed to the theory of the communist ideal by its critics.

KEYWORDS

Zagorsk experiment, E. V. Ilyenkov, deaf-blindness, thinking; science, soul

Funding

the study has been supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 24-18-00130).

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