Re: Vygotskyand Wertsch

Bruce Robinson (bruce.rob who-is-at btinternet.com)
Mon, 7 Sep 1998 10:45:19 +0100

>
>Brian, I have a web page about Vygotsky at
>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9148/vygotsky.html that has portions of
some
>of his texts online.
>The Historical Meaning of The Crisis in Psychology:
>A Methodological Investigation
>by Lev Vygotsky (1927)
>Chapters 1-4, 12, & 13
>
>Thought and Language
>Chapter 7 Thought and Word
>
>Thinking in Speech
>Chapter 1 The Problem and the Approach
>
>The original source for all three of these online versions of Vygotsky's
>books come from http://werple.net.au/~andy/home.htm.

This is an excellent site for anyone interested in Hegel, dialectics,
Marxist philosophy or the broader history of philosophy. It contains the
whole of Hegel's 'Shorter Logic' and extracts from many works in any way
influenced by him, particularly but not solely in the Marxist tradition.
Also there is a very wide range of extracts from just about every major
philosopher plus some scientists, social theorists etc focussed on the broad
theme of materialism vs idealism.

Andy Blunden (whose site it is) has also written an interesting article on
Vygotsky and
dialectics, based on a reading of 'Thought and Language', which is on the
site somewhere! However I have a copy, which I will post to the list if
anyone's interested.

Bruce Robinson