Vygotsky: an intellectual biography

✍ Scribed by Anton Yasnitsky

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 161
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

"– The most famous Russian psychologist, whose life and ideas are least known?

– A pioneer of psychology who said virtually nothing new?

– A simple man who became a genius after he died?

This fundamentally novel intellectual biography offers a 21st-century account of the life and times of Lev Vygotsky, who has long been considered a pioneer in the field of learning and human development. The diverse Vygotskian literature has created many distinct images of this influential scientist, which has led many researchers to attempt to unearth ‘the real Vygotsky’. Rather than join this quest to over-simplify Vygotsky’s legacy, this book attempts to understand the development of ‘the multiple Vygotskies’ by exploring a number of personae that Vygotsky assumed at different periods of his life. Based on the most recent archival, textological and historical investigations in original, uncensored Russian, the author presents a ground-breaking account that is far from the shiny success story that is typically associated with ‘the cult of Vygotsky’.

This book will be an essential contribution to Vygotskian scholarship and of interest to advanced students and researchers in history of psychology, history of science, Soviet/Russian history, philosophical psychology, and philosophy of science." – https://www.routledge.com/Vygotsky-An-Intellectual-Biography/Yasnitsky/p/book/9781138806740

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Cover legend
Ouverture
1. Prophet
The Gomel years (1896–1913)
A Jew admitted to the Imperial Moscow University
Literary criticism (1914–1916)
Beba Vygodskii: the “young Jewish prophet”
The Russian Revolution (1917–1918)
Lev Vygodskii during the Russian Revolution
The First World War (1914–1918) and its aftermath
In Ukrainian Gomel in 1918
2. Bolshevik
Gomel during the Russian Civil War
The “cultural front”, Marxism, and the “new man”
Lev Vygotsky in Gomel in 1919–1921
New Economic Policy (NEP) and the birth of the Soviet Union
Vygotsky as a publisher, political activist, and theatrical critic (1922–1923)
3. Reflexologist
Vygotsky teaches and lectures
Vygotsky’s entrance into psychology
Teaching about reflexes: Pavlov’s and Bekhterev’s research methods
Vygotsky’s new method: “Double Stimulation”
Vygotsky and reflexology
Second Psychoneurological Congress as a landmark
4. Psychologist
Alexander Luria: Vygotsky’s alter ego
Vygotsky’s return to Moscow
Marxist practicality and the “new science”
The variety of “new psychologies”
The trip to London and its aftermath
Vygotsky’s three books
Psychology as a science about the superman
The Vygotsky–Luria Circle: people and institutes
“Instrumental Psychology”
Unexpected discoveries: word meaning, dialogue, and inner speech
The outcomes of the 1920s
5. Revisionist
Stalin’s Great Break and the Cultural Revolution
Vygotsky’s life and career at the turn of the decade
Ninth International Psychological Congress and its impact
Towards a new psychological theory
The demise of “reactology”
Criticizing Vygotsky
Vygotsky criticizes… Vygotsky
Expeditions to Central Asia in 1931 and 1932
Revisionist conclusion
6. Holist
The challenge of totality: holistic Gestalt psychology
Kurt Lewin’s “Galileian” psychology
The Vygotsky–Luria Circle in the 1930s
Major theoretical reconstruction and new experimentation
“The threshold of a new theory”: the pessimistic
Epilogue. Genius
Timeline of landmark events
Glossary
Conventions and acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index

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