[Xmca-l] Re: Hegel for Social Movements

[Katerina Plakitsi]

Congrats Andy! Your contribution to the community is more than great!
Katerina

Στις Πέμ, 11 Ιουλ 2019 στις 18:42 ο χρήστης Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org>
έγραψε:

> The whole point of an adventure is that it is transformative, and my point
> was that the examples in "The Problem of the Environment" gave the
> impression that perezhivaniya are only traumas to be survived; sometimes
> they are opportunities seized.
>
> In any case, I hope I have done more than summarise, but offer a real
> adventure for readers who are willing to explore Hegel.
>
> Andy
> ------------------------------
> *Andy Blunden*
> https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
> On 11/07/2019 11:57 pm, David Kellogg wrote:
>
> Congratulations, Andy, above all on the length of the book. I am quite
> sure you are the only person on this particular planet who could give a
> sensible summary of the Phenomenology, the Logic,  and the Philosophy of
> Right in a slim volume.
>
> Having just finished the baggy monster of "The House of Government" and
> having started the task of trying to summarize Vygotsky's lectures in
> "Problem of Age", I am more than ever cognizant of how difficult it is to
> distill an intellectual adventure without killing the excitement. Here, for
> example, is Laurie Anderson on Walter Benjamin on Paul Klee...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGL2Ne0V9mI
>
> She said: what is history?
> And he said: history is an angel being blown backwards into the future
> He said: history is a pile of debris
> And the angel wants to go back and fix things
> To repair the things that have been broken
> But there is a storm blowing from paradise
> And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
> And this storm, this storm is called progress
>
> (I remember Nikolai Veresov objecting strongly to your translation of
> "perezhivanie" as "adventure" because "adventure" lacks the element of
> reflection on being....but we do have, for example, the Adventures of
> Robinson Crusoe and the Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver....)
>
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
>
> New Article:
> Han Hee Jeung & David Kellogg (2019): A story without SELF: Vygotsky’s
> pedology, Bruner’s constructivism and Halliday’s construalism in
> understanding narratives by
> Korean children, Language and Education, DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
> To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
>
> Some e-prints available at:
>
> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KHRxrQ4n45t9N2ZHZhQK/full?target=10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 10:05 PM Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org> wrote:
>
>> Just Published: "Hegel for Social Movements" by Andy Blunden
>> <https://www.facebook.com/andy.blunden.1?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARAYFD6ziZn3JLdMSCZZJM4sdlbw4OF-9HJBwKYQHmGMKp1hyLdOT9R6Li53liTYij7_Et4bUGQYuLxz&fref=mentions>
>> https://brill.com/abstract/title/54574
>> <https://brill.com/abstract/title/54574?fbclid=IwAR3U-pwB1xfjw82qeX4hvorbgo396eV6MR_lFCC2276PF7iAU05Gke1gEVI>
>>
>> An introduction to the reading of Hegel intended for those already active
>> in social movements. The book introduces Hegel’s ideas in a way which will
>> be useful for those fighting for social change, and while some familiarity
>> with philosophy would be an advantage for the reader, the main
>> pre-requisite is a commitment to the practical pursuit of ideal aims. The
>> book covers the whole sweep of Hegel’s writing, but focuses particularly on
>> the Logic and Hegel’s social theory – the Philosophy of Right. Blunden
>> brings to his exposition an original interpretation of Hegel’s Logic as the
>> logic of social change, utilizing his knowledge of Vygotsky’s cultural
>> psychology and Soviet Activity Theory. Although CHAT is hardly mentioned in
>> this exposition of Hegel, being familiar with CHAT, you will recognise the
>> influence of Vygotsky and Leontyev as well as Marx on my reading of Hegel.
>>
>> The book is very expensive, so until the cheap paperback comes out next
>> year, please order it from your Library or get a journal, magazine or
>> website to review it and ask for a review copy.
>>
>>
>>
>> You can get a full table of contents here:
>> https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/pdfs/hegel-social-movements.pdf
>>
>>
>> and a search engine for the full text at the above Brill link.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andy
>> --
>> ------------------------------
>> *Andy Blunden*
>> https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
>>
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