[Xmca-l] Re: Hegel for Social Movements

[David Kellogg]

Congratulations, Andy, above all on the length of the book. I am quite sure
you are the only person on this particular planet who could give a sensible
summary of the Phenomenology, the Logic,  and the Philosophy of Right in a
slim volume.

Having just finished the baggy monster of "The House of Government" and
having started the task of trying to summarize Vygotsky's lectures in
"Problem of Age", I am more than ever cognizant of how difficult it is to
distill an intellectual adventure without killing the excitement. Here, for
example, is Laurie Anderson on Walter Benjamin on Paul Klee...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGL2Ne0V9mI

She said: what is history?
And he said: history is an angel being blown backwards into the future
He said: history is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called progress

(I remember Nikolai Veresov objecting strongly to your translation of
"perezhivanie" as "adventure" because "adventure" lacks the element of
reflection on being....but we do have, for example, the Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe and the Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver....)

David Kellogg
Sangmyung University

New Article:
Han Hee Jeung & David Kellogg (2019): A story without SELF: Vygotsky’s
pedology, Bruner’s constructivism and Halliday’s construalism in
understanding narratives by
Korean children, Language and Education, DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663

Some e-prints available at:
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KHRxrQ4n45t9N2ZHZhQK/full?target=10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663



On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 10:05 PM Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org> wrote:

> Just Published: "Hegel for Social Movements" by Andy Blunden
> <https://www.facebook.com/andy.blunden.1?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARAYFD6ziZn3JLdMSCZZJM4sdlbw4OF-9HJBwKYQHmGMKp1hyLdOT9R6Li53liTYij7_Et4bUGQYuLxz&fref=mentions>
> https://brill.com/abstract/title/54574
> <https://brill.com/abstract/title/54574?fbclid=IwAR3U-pwB1xfjw82qeX4hvorbgo396eV6MR_lFCC2276PF7iAU05Gke1gEVI>
>
> An introduction to the reading of Hegel intended for those already active
> in social movements. The book introduces Hegel’s ideas in a way which will
> be useful for those fighting for social change, and while some familiarity
> with philosophy would be an advantage for the reader, the main
> pre-requisite is a commitment to the practical pursuit of ideal aims. The
> book covers the whole sweep of Hegel’s writing, but focuses particularly on
> the Logic and Hegel’s social theory – the Philosophy of Right. Blunden
> brings to his exposition an original interpretation of Hegel’s Logic as the
> logic of social change, utilizing his knowledge of Vygotsky’s cultural
> psychology and Soviet Activity Theory. Although CHAT is hardly mentioned in
> this exposition of Hegel, being familiar with CHAT, you will recognise the
> influence of Vygotsky and Leontyev as well as Marx on my reading of Hegel.
>
> The book is very expensive, so until the cheap paperback comes out next
> year, please order it from your Library or get a journal, magazine or
> website to review it and ask for a review copy.
>
>
>
> You can get a full table of contents here:
> https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/pdfs/hegel-social-movements.pdf
>
>
> and a search engine for the full text at the above Brill link.
>
>
>
> Andy
> --
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> *Andy Blunden*
> https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
>
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