Re: Holzkamp

From: Andy Blunden (andy@mira.net)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 20:35:24 PDT


Thanks you Michael, and I see you are a colleague of Chas. Tolman as well!
Andy
At 07:09 PM 16/08/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>At 9:38 AM +1000 8/17/01, Andy Blunden wrote:
>>Is anyone familiar with the "German Critical Psychology" of Klaus
>>Holzkamp? I'm not, but a German friend of mine from Jena is insisting
>>that German Critical Psychology is "even better" than the Vygotsky
>>School, but the only English language web link she has been able to give
>>me is to a book by Charles Tolman of the University of Victoria, Canada:
>>http://web.uvic.ca/german/400/students/gewalt92.html
>>
>>Andy Blunden
>
>I have read a lot of Klaus Holzkamp's work, most of it in German. The
>following are in English:
>
>Holzkamp, K. (1991). Societal and individual life processes. In C. W.
>Tolman & W. Maiers (eds), Critical psychology: Contributions to an
>historical science of the subject (pp. 50-64). Cambridge: Cambridge
>University Press.
>Holzkamp, K. (1991). Experience of self and scientific objectivity. In C.
>W. Tolman & W. Maiers (eds), Critical psychology: Contributions to an
>historical science of the subject (pp. 65-80). Cambridge: Cambridge
>University Press.
>A former colleague of mine, Charles Tolman wrote a book on Critical
>Psychology--he was a friend of Klaus.
>
>Tolman, C. W. (1994). Psychology, society, and subjectivity: An
>introduction to German critical psychology. New York: Routledge.
>
>What you will find is that KLaus Holzkamp develops Leont'ev's work, and
>also uses ideas that you can find in Il'enkov, the use of dialectical
>notions, general and particular, ... Yrjö is referencing Holzkamp's work,
>and so does Jean Lave (1993).
>
>Michael
>
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>
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