(H/B) THE COLLECTED WORKS OF L.S. VYGOTSKY (VOLUME 4)

Παρουσίαση

In reading "The History of the Development of Higher Mental Functions" the modern reader will be immediately struck by two contradictory impulses. On the one hand, many passages of the text are quite familiar. Given the appropriation of portions of this manuscript and their incorporation into Mind in Society, this is to be expected. On the other hand, these "familiar" passages occur in contexts of discussion which have not been previously exposed, alongside of concepts we haven't seemed to encounter before (e.g., the discussion of establishing the "cultural age" of the child in addition to the more familiar "mental age" and "chronological age" measures used to define IQ). Some of these discussions will seem startlingly new and others dated or possibly "of no interest to contemporary readers." It is tempting to attempt an exegesis to make clear what is new and to highlight what hasn't been highlighted before. To do so, however, would, I believe, violate the spirit and the essential contribution of the monumental publishing effort of which this is the fourth volume. (...) (from the publisher)