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In the contemporary academic world, dominated by “ready-made receipts” for explaining psychological processes, Roth and Jornet took upon themeselves the hard task of revising Vygotsky legacy on the basis of Spinoza’s relevance in his thinking. The authors focused on the Russian scholar’s “later years”, almost still unknown worldwide to both the large audience and serious specialists in educational psychology and adjacent areas. The book greatly contributes to the consolidation of a cultural psychology’s perspective in education to restore the relevance of a general theoretical elaboration against the flattening of present-day educational psychology.