[Xmca-l] Re: Hegel for Social Movements

[Robert Lake]

Thank-you for continuing to do this work Andy
and congratulations on now seeing it in print.
May I recommend that you have a video discussion on each chapter through
your Vimeo Channel in some fashion?
Robert Lake

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:51 PM Katerina Plakitsi <kplakits@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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