Re: [xmca] Special issue on Vygotsky's legacy: groudbreaking discoveries in PsyAnima, Dubna Psychological Journal!

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Anton- someone kept this historical record alive. Or two historical
records, one of which appears to be distorted in various ways.

To me, an important task of the current, post-Soviet, generation is to
discuss what major ideas/theories emerge from a more comprehensive
examination of
the new corpus; are major positions that have underpinned empirical research
put into question? Which one's? With what repercussions. Its great that the
spirit
of glasnost exists. The new forms emerging from perestroika, however, might
themselves be worth critical examination.

mike

2012/3/21 Anton Yasnitsky <the_yasya@yahoo.com>

> Indeed, thanks a lot to all those researchers, editors, translators, and
> other volunteers and enthusiasts who made this -- and will make several
> forthcoming  -- journal issues possible!!
>
> As to Vygotsky's archives, well, it is a little bit different. For
> instance, as one paper argues, on the contrary, archival materials of one
> of arguably Vygotsky's works were NOT preserved, and the Russian text of
> the work was blatantly retranslated (or just translated) into Russian from
> English (this was a much later copy that actually WAS preserved, or, for
> that matter, was NOT preserved either, but was "reconstructed" some time in
> the 1950s or 1960s).
>
> Yet again, as we know, the manuscript of yet another work, commonly
> believed to be a central work of Vygotsky, was NOT preserved either. The
> same holds for yet another allegedly most important Vygotsky's book.
>
> So, in sum, I would not be that thankful to those who have been in charge
> of keeping Vygotsky's archival stuff alive and, for that matter,
> accessible.
>
> Anton
>
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> *From:* mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
> *To:* Anton Yasnitsky <the_yasya@yahoo.com>; "eXtended Mind, Culture,
> Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> *Cc:* Alexey Kuznetsov <alexey.math@gmail.com>; Ющенкова Дарья Викторовна
> <dashulya-psy@mail.ru>; Anton Yasnitsky <anton.yasnitsky@gmail.com>;
> Мещеряков Борис Гурьевич <borlogic@yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:04:02 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [xmca] Special issue on Vygotsky's legacy: groudbreaking
> discoveries in PsyAnima, Dubna Psychological Journal!
>
> Thanks to all who carried out this work. Thanks also to those who kept the
> archival materials alive.
> mike
>
> 2012/3/21 Anton Yasnitsky <the_yasya@yahoo.com>
>
> A special issue of PsyAnima, Dubna Psychological issue has been released
> lately. This thematic multilingual issue combined a few studies on
> textology, chronology and historical development of  Vygotsky's works.
> Several highlights include:
>
> - first ever rigorous historical reconstruction of the list of Vygotsky's
> major works and the chronology of their composition
>
> - the sensational finding: Vygotsky never wrote the "History of
> development of higher mental (psychological) functions" and "Tool and
> symbol (sign)" the way we know these texts in Russian now
>
> - a discussion of Vygotsky's " Tool and Sign" (alias "Tool and Sign"),
> i.e. the first half of what we all know as "Mind and Society" (1978,
> chapters 1-4): was Russian text translated from the English one, or the
> English text translated from Russian one, or both?
>
> - numerous fakes and falsifications in Vygotsky's various published works
> & the problem of reliability: is it the Vygotsky that we know or rather --
> the Vygotsky that we DO NOT know?
>
> - full list of editorial interventions in the three editions of Vygotsky's
> "Thinking and speech" of 1934, 1956, & 1982
>
> - a historical, first ever republication of early Vygotsky's articles on
> art, theatre and literature of 1922: the unknown Vygotsky of his Gomel'
> period (1917-1924)
>
> All these and some other materials, in Russian, English, Portuguese, and
> French are available FREE, 24/7 online @
> http://www.psyanima.ru/journal/2011/4/index.php
>
> The editorial team are presently considering publishing a follow-up issue
> of the journal that would build on these studies, so any
> queries, comments, suggestions, and even paper proposals (in virtually any
> language and of virtually any length) will be greatly appreciated!
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