On Tue, 5 May 1998, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
> Just to build a bit on Stanton's response to Nate: Vol. 4 of the collected
> works includes a lot of what's in Mind in Society. The translations are
> different, as are the organizations. Mike and Vera could probably tell us
> much more about their thinking behind the collection provided in Mind in
> Society, which to me coheres extremely well for a set of papers that were
> not originally written as a package; the new collection, which aims to be
> more comprehensive, appears to be trying to be more faithful to Vygotsky's
> original chronology for writing them, rather than providing modern readers
> with a collection of introductory foundational essays. Or at least that's
> what I understand to be the purpose of Mind in Society--did I get that right?
>
> So far the collected works have not included a new version of the
> Psychology of Art, which is now out of press (originally Harvard UP).
> Something else to look forward to.
>
> Peter
>
> At 01:40 PM 5/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >In reply to Nate's question:
> >
> >I'm sure there are others on this list who know better than I the
> >content's of Plenum's COLLECTED WORKDS OF LSV. But from my experience it
> >looks as if they do contain everything or nearly everything -- at least,
> >they contain an awful lot that English-speaking folks have had no access
> >to. The English Volume 3 (Russian Volume 1), for instance, contains
> >Vygotsky's prefaces to many classic psychological books (Kohler, etc.),
> >which are extraordinary for their philosophical incisiveness.
> >
> >As to your question about THINKING & SPEECH (apparently the more accurate
> >translation of what was called in English THOUGHT & LANGUAGE), a new
> >translation does appear in the first English volume of the COLLECTED
> >WORKS, I think, which must now be about 10 years old. MIND IN SOCIETY is
> >of course a collection of essays, and I would imagine that all these
> >appear somewhere in the COLLECTED WORKS, but probably not together.
> >
> >Stanton Wortham
> >
>
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