Abstract:
This text aims to point out some of Angel Pino's contributions to the understanding of the concept of new man proposed by Lev Vigotski. This concept is closely linked to K. Marx's and F. Engels's thinking and derives from it. Vigotski proposes that culture is a human production and that the man produces his own life and modifies it according to his needs and historical conditions. In several works, with theoretical strictness and depth in various fields of knowledge, Angel Pino retakes and makes it explicit that the conditions of existence, from which the man's consciousness originates, are transformed by him and for that he invents and uses tools and signs. Angel Pino's effort towards the understanding of Vigotski's theory on the passage from the order of the natural development to the cultural one is inspirational to reflect upon the passage of a society which exploits and deprives its members from the material and cultural goods to a new society, constitutive of a new man.
Keywords:
Lev Vigotski; Angel Pino; New Man; Socialist transformation; Cultural-Historical Psychology