Re: [xmca] Italica Mysteriosa

This paragraph is from Vygotsky's The history of the development of higher
mental functions, 1998, vol. 4, and appears in the very beginning of
Chapter 2 (second paragraph of the English text), p. 27:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Wvy8rt0kzf0C&pg=PT51&sig=h4_jo_H1Zg7B0w25Jj6gENT-NS8#PPT51,M1

Here is the 1998 version of the quote:

... Finding a method is one of the most important tasks of the researcher.
The method in such cases is simultaneously a prerequisite and product, a
tool and a result of the research...

> David Kellogg wrote:
> > Does anyone know where this quotation ORIGINALLY comes from?
> >  
> > "(T)he search for method becomes one of the most important problems of
> the entire enterprise of understanding the uniquely human forms of
> psychological activity. In this case, the method is simultaneously
> prerequisite and product, the tool and the result of the study. (italics
> in the original)"
> >  
> > It's p. 65 of Mind in Society. But that chapter is made up of Chapter
> Three of the History of the Development of the Higher Mental Functions,
> in Volume Four of the Collected Works.
> >  
> > The weird thing is that I can find the passages right before and right
> after this italicized thing, but the italicized bit itself is simply not
> there.
> >  
> > Could it one of those interstitial interpolations that Gillen (2000)
> complains about? Since it is in italics, I can't believe it was written
> by one of the editors (Mike???). I remember hearing once that the
> main part of this book was a manuscript translated by Luria--did it come
> from there?
> >  
> > Can anyone help?
> >  
> > David Kellogg
> > Seoul National University of Education
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Fri May 30 19:03 PDT 2008