Re: Holzkamp

From: Wolff-Michael Roth (mroth@uvic.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 19:09:37 PDT


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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Wolff-Michael Roth

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