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(H/B) THE COLLECTED WORKS OF L.S. VYGOTSKY (VOLUME 1)
The Collected Works of Lev Semonovich Vygotsky comprise a series of six volumes, originally published in Moscow by Pedagogika between 1982 and 1984 and comprising the work done by Vygotsky between 1924 and his early death in 1934. The present volume is the first of this series to appear in English but it is actually Volume 2 in the Russian series. It contains a complete rendition of Thinking and Speech (which may be known to English readers as Thought and Language, the title assigned to an abridged, interpretative translation by Hanfmann a...
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(H/B) THE COLLECTED WORKS OF L.S. VYGOTSKY (VOLUME 2)
The Fundamentals of Defectology is Volume 2 of Plenum's English version of The Collected Works of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky and it is a translation of Volume 5 of Pedagogika's six-volume series published in Moscow between 1982 and 1984. The volume contains Vygotsky's works on defectology originally published in the 1920's and 1930's as well as some posthumous undated and hitherto unpublished manuscripts. They consist of a variety of formal and informal texts. The Soviet Editorial Collegium for the publication of Vygotsky's work collected the...
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(H/B) THE COLLECTED WORKS OF L.S. VYGOTSKY (VOLUME 3)
"The Historical Meaning of the Crisis in Psychology" was not published during Vygotsky's lifetime, and may not even be a finished work. It was long believed lost. Nevertheless the ideas it focuses on, reflected in other of Vygotsky's works, did have an influence even while he was alive (Yaroshevsky, 1989, pp. 197-198). History, moreover, has increased the significance of the work, for Vygotsky is not only a most perceptive witness to the professional crisis of his time, but also a prophet of the crisis of today. At the end of the nineteent...
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(H/B) THE COLLECTED WORKS OF L.S. VYGOTSKY (VOLUME 4)
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 establis...
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(H/B) THE COLLECTED WORKS OF L.S. VYGOTSKY (VOLUME 5)
This volume of Vygotsky's Collected Works contains important writings on the development of human psychology from early childhood to adolescence. The volume is divided into two sections. The first contains about one-half of the chapters of Vygotsky's book, Pedology of the Adolescent. This book was published during Vygotsky's lifetime in a limited number of copies. The second section consists of separate articles which were published after Vygotsky died. The works in this volume reveal some important extensions of Vygotsky's fundamental con...
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(H/B) THE COLLECTED WORKS OF L.S. VYGOTSKY (VOLUME 6)
Scientific Legacy is the title of this collection, which was published in Russian after Vygotsky's death. This volume is divided into three sections, ranging from tools and signs in child development to emotions, ending with an analysis of the emotions of actors. Before beginning this prologue, an introduction will be offered in memory of Lev Semonovich Vygotsky as a Russian first, a man who lived only until 1934, and who died at the early age of thirty-seven. Readers are encouraged to position his thoughts within the framework of phenomen...
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