My favourite topic, Jenna.
The idea of a "cell" comes from Johann Gottfried Herder via Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe to Hegel to Marx and thus to Vygotsky.
For Herder = "Schwerpunkt"
For Goethe = "Urphaenomen"
For Hegel = "Begriff" or Concept
For Marx = "cell"
For Vygotsky= "unit of analysis"
I have written a book on this topic available from
http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857
Or you can get most of this on the cheap from my home page:
http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/index.htm
selecting relevant-looking articles from mid-2009
Andy
Jenna McWilliams wrote:
There's a lot to unpack in this passage (and for anyone who's
interested in reading "Is there a Vygotskian philosophy after
Marx?", You can grab the .pdf of it here), but what I'm most
interested in at the moment is how to think of the "cell" in
Vygotsky's approach. Can anyone help elucidate how this idea plays
out in his writings, methodology, or efforts toward a cultural
psychology?
Thanks in advance!
jenna
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