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Re: [xmca] Article on LSV's Crisis



I actually attached the file lat time, but it disappeared somewhere in the webworld.

Here's trying again: 

Attachment: Hyman 2011 Vygotsky's Crisis Argument, context, r.pdf
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On Apr 1, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Carmen Torres wrote:

> 
> Sorry, I couldn't access to it. Would it be possible for you to send me the
> article in pdf?
> Thanks in advance.
> Carmen
> 
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] En
> nombre de Martin Packer
> Enviado el: domingo, 01 de abril de 2012 20:11
> Para: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Asunto: [xmca] Article on LSV's Crisis
> 
> This article may be interest. It is still in press, but available from the
> journal web site.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> Hyman, L. (2011). Vygotsky's Crisis: Argument, context, relevance. Studies
> in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
> doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2011.11.007
> 
> Vygotsky's The Historical Significance of the Crisis in Psychology
> (1926/1927) is an important text in the history and philosophy of psychology
> that has only become available to scholars in 1982 in Russian, and in 1997
> in English. The goal of this paper is to introduce Vygotsky's conception of
> psychology to a wider audience. I argue that Vygotsky's argument about the
> 'crisis'ˇ in psychology and its resolution can be fully understood only in
> the context of his social and political thinking. Vygotsky shared the
> enthusiasm, widespread among Russian leftist intelligentsia in the 1920s,
> that Soviet society had launched an unprecedented social experiment: The
> socialist revolution opened the way for establishing social conditions that
> would let the individual flourish. For Vygotsky, this meant that 'a new
> man'ˇ of the future would become 'the first and only species in biology that
> would create itself.'ˇ He envisioned psychology as a science that would
> serve this humanist teleology. I propose that The Crisis is relevant today
> insofar as it helps us define a fundamental problem: How can we
> systematically account for the development of knowledge in psychology? I
> evaluate how Vygotsky addresses this problem as a historian of the crisis.
> 
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