I actually attached the file lat time, but it disappeared somewhere in the webworld. Here's trying again:
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On Apr 1, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Carmen Torres wrote: > > Sorry, I couldn't access to it. Would it be possible for you to send me the > article in pdf? > Thanks in advance. > Carmen > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] En > nombre de Martin Packer > Enviado el: domingo, 01 de abril de 2012 20:11 > Para: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity > Asunto: [xmca] Article on LSV's Crisis > > This article may be interest. It is still in press, but available from the > journal web site. > > Martin > > > Hyman, L. (2011). Vygotsky's Crisis: Argument, context, relevance. Studies > in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. > doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.11.007 > > Vygotsky's The Historical Significance of the Crisis in Psychology > (1926/1927) is an important text in the history and philosophy of psychology > that has only become available to scholars in 1982 in Russian, and in 1997 > in English. The goal of this paper is to introduce Vygotsky's conception of > psychology to a wider audience. I argue that Vygotsky's argument about the > 'crisis'ˇ in psychology and its resolution can be fully understood only in > the context of his social and political thinking. Vygotsky shared the > enthusiasm, widespread among Russian leftist intelligentsia in the 1920s, > that Soviet society had launched an unprecedented social experiment: The > socialist revolution opened the way for establishing social conditions that > would let the individual flourish. For Vygotsky, this meant that 'a new > man'ˇ of the future would become 'the first and only species in biology that > would create itself.'ˇ He envisioned psychology as a science that would > serve this humanist teleology. I propose that The Crisis is relevant today > insofar as it helps us define a fundamental problem: How can we > systematically account for the development of knowledge in psychology? I > evaluate how Vygotsky addresses this problem as a historian of the crisis. > > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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