Re: [xmca] is Leontiev (1983) available in English?

Thank you, David. It does appear that the 1978 version in English is
the same as the 1983 in Russian. Yes? For some reason that didn't
look obvious to me before, as it does on a second look. I had access
to a printer and lots of paper for a while and printed the 1978 from
LCHC all out to study. We read it as part of the 2003 xmca course. I
know a bit more now (that is an understatement - CHAT was totally new
to me back then - that course was a total eye-opener) and I would get
a lot out of another reading of that book.

The MIA site also has that book online - an intro, 5 chapters, and a
conclusion. I think the LCHC site took the MIA version and put it in
html, pdf, etc. formats.

Here is how the MIA site cites the original source, which is out of
print:

First Published: 1978
Source: Activity, Consciousness, and Personality
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Translated: Marie J. Hall
Transcription/Markup: Nate Schmolze
Online Version: Leont'ev Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2000

The other Leontiev writing you mention that is on LCHC, and is also
MIA, the 1978 article Activity and Consciousness, may be different
from the 1986 Russian article that Anna cites.

MIA cites its source for "Activity and Consciousness" as:

Written: 1977;
Source: Philosophy in the USSR, Problems of Dialectical Materialism;
Publisher: Progress Publishers;
Transcribed: for marxists.org by Nate Schmolze;
Proofed: and corrected by Andy Blunden.

This seems different from:

> Leontiev, A. N. (1986). Problema dejatelnosti v istorii razvitja
> Sovetskoj psihologii [The problem of activity in the history
> of Soviet psychology]. Voprosi Psihologii, July-August, 109—119.

Is it?

A little rummaging on Amazon.com reveals a hardback Recent Trends
Soviet Psych (1978), by James W. Wertsch (5 used copies available,
$122 up) and what is possibly a softcover version, Trends In Soviet
Cognitive Psychology, 1981, by James V. Wertsch, (no copies
available). (The V. is correct). A quick search on Alibris.com
didn't turn up either of those books, or the Leontiev 1978, but there
are a couple copies of the 1977. I presume the Recent Trends book is
the one you are suggesting that the article Activity and Consciousness
is in Chapter Three of, yes?

For sure, we need Leontiev's writings already in English back in
print, and more translated and published. I wonder if there is
anything else in English by Leontiev we might be able to get on one of
these sites in the meantime.

- Steve

On Aug 1, 2008, at 6:28 AM, David Kellogg wrote:

> Steve:
>
> I think Activity, Consciousness, and Personality is Leontiev's 1978
> book, available for free on the XMCA discussion papers here:
>
> http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/Paper/leontev/index.html
>
> The paper you want on the concept of activity in Soviet psychology
> is Chapter Three, no? It's very substantially the same as the
> chapter published in Wertsch 1978.
>
> David Kellogg
> Seoul National University of Education
>
> From: Steve Gabosch <stevegabosch@mac.com>
> Subject: [xmca] is Leontiev (1983) available in English?
> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 3:19 AM
>
> Since we have been talking a bit about Leontiev, and Stetsenko in the
> From Art to Play paper discussion, I have a question. Anna bases her
> 2005 paper especially on the 1983 book below. These citations are
> from that paper. Are either of these available in English?
>
> Leontiev, A. N. (1983). Dejatelnost, soznanie, lichnost [Activity,
> consciousness, personality]. In V. Davydov, V. Zinchenko, A. A.
> Leontiev & A. Petrovskij (Eds.), A.N.Leont’ev. Izbrannie
> psihologicheskie proizvedenija [A. N. Leontiev. Selected psychological
> works] (Vol. 2, pp. 94-231). Moscow: Pedagogika.
>
> Leontiev, A. N. (1986). Problema dejatelnosti v istorii razvitja
> Sovetskoj psihologii [The problem of activity in the history
> of Soviet psychology]. Voprosi Psihologii, July-August, 109—119.
>
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