Re: [xmca] Article on LSV's Crisis

[Olga vasquez <ovasquez@weber.ucsd.edu>]

Martin, thanks much for the pdfs.
Olga

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> wrote:

> I actually attached the file lat time, but it disappeared somewhere in the
> webworld.
>
> Here's trying again:
>
>
> 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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Olga A. Vásquez
Associate Professor
University of California, San Diego
Department of Communication
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