Questioning Vygotsky's Legacy: Scientific Psychology or Heroic Cult

ISBN-13: 9781138481275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 188 str.

Anton Yasnitsky

Opis

This accessible collection of essays critically examines Lev Vygotsky’s scientific legacy in the context of the "revisionist revolution" and encourages constructive questioning of Vygotsky’s theory of human development.

Spis treści

1. Vygotsky's Psychology of Superman: From Utopia to Concrete Science Anton Yasnitsky 2. Vygotsky and Marx – Re-Setting the Relationship Peter E. Jones 3. Rethinking Vygotsky: A Critical Reading of the Semiotics in Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Theory Ruihan Zhang 4. Vygotsky's "Significant Other": Alexander Luria's Contribution to the Development of Vygotsky's Ideas Eli Lamdan 5. A History of the Social Construction of the "Cultural-Historical": Theory and School Peter Keiler 6. From Superhumans to Supermediators: Locating the Extraordinary in CHAT Clay Spinuzzi 7. On Vygotsky’s International Celebration, Or How to Critically Appropriate Authors from the Past Luciano Nicolás García

O autorze

Anton Yasnitsky, Ph.D., is an independent researcher who specializes in the Vygotsky–Luria Circle. He is the author of Vygotsky: An Intellectual Biography (2018) and has coedited (with René Van der Veer and others) The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology (2014), Revisionist Revolution in Vygotsky Studies (2015), and Vygotski revisitado: una historia crítica de su contexto y legado (2016).