[Xmca-l] Vygotsky,Marx, & summer reading

[Andy Blunden]

Amazon have it for $38.21: 
https://www.amazon.com/Vygotsky-Marx-Toward-Marxist-Psychology/dp/1138244813 
which is not too bad.

My chapter is available at 
https://www.academia.edu/11387923/ but so far as I can see 
other authors have not posted theirs on academia.edu - maybe 
elsewhere?

Thank you, Alfredo, for highlighting how I have pointed to 5 
different domains in which Vygotsky demonstrated the "method 
of analysis by units." To me, it seems useless to identify a 
writer's methodological innovations unless you can transport 
that methodology to a different context, and pointing to 
five applications by Vygotsky himself seemed a good way of 
showing how portable the method is. More recently, I used 
this method in an approach to political science, taking a 
group of people in the room trying to decide on what they 
are going to do together as a unit of analysis. Personally, 
I think this method has proved very fruitful and original. 
How lucky we are to be inheritors of Vygotsky's brilliant 
insights, still generally so unknown to the general 
scientific audience. What a gift LSV has given us!

But legacies are always problematic. Alfredo, I think you 
would be a very good candidate to review this book. Beth?

Andy


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Andy Blunden
http://home.mira.net/~andy
http://www.brill.com/products/book/origins-collective-decision-making 

On 18/08/2017 10:16 PM, mike cole wrote:
> Peter, Alfredo Et al -
>
> It seems that the readers of MCA would appreciate a good overview review of
> the LSV and Marx book, but so far as I know, no one has proposed the idea
> to Beth, the book review editor. (You seem to have a jump on the task,
> Alfredo!).
>
> Also, given the cost of the book, it would be nice if authors could follow
> Andy's lead and make a draft available. Andy's article on units of analysis
> is on Academia, a click away. That way the many readers of XMCA around the
> world would not be excluded from the discussion.
>
> Mike
> Happy travels summer readers.  :-)
>
>