Vygotsky and Leontiev : the construction of a Marxist psychology / Silvana Calvo Tuleski, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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VYGOTSKY AND LEONTIEV: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MARXIST PSYCHOLOGY; VYGOTSKY AND LEONTIEV: THE CONSTRUCTION OF A MARXIST PSYCHOLOGY; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Foreword: Revolution, Marxism and Psychology(; Abstract; References; Chapter 1: The Western Interpretation of Vygotsky's Works; Department of Psychology, State University of Maringá (UEM), Paraná, Brazil; Abstract; Introduction; Problems with the Western Translations of Vygotsky's Texts; Anti-Marxist Interpretations of Vygotsky's Work.

The Importance of Recovering the Method of Dialectical Materialism in Vygotsky's WorkReferences; Chapter 2: From the Material Revolution to the Psychological Revolution: The Foundation of the Communist Psychology of Vygotsky; Department of Psychology, State University of Maringá (UEM), Paraná, Brazil; Abstract; Introduction; The Need for a Communist Psychology; The Historical Materialist Method as Basis for the New Psychology; References; Chapter 3: Formation of Consciousness: A Jump from Evolution to Revolution in Human Behavior.

Department of Psychology, State University of Maringá (UEM), Paraná, BrazilAbstract; Introduction; Higher Psychological Functions and their Role in the Formation of the Communist Consciousness; Education for Self-Control, for the Collective Management ... ; References; Chapter 4: Vygotsky & Leontiev: Undoing Some Knots of Soviet Psychology; Department of Psychology, State University of Maringá (UEM) Paraná, Brazil; Abstract; Introduction; Vygotsky and Leontiev: Rupture or Continuity?; The Context of the Job Offer in Kharkov.

Large Academic Sessions and the "Pavlovinization" of Soviet PsychologyThe Death of Stalin, New Directions ... ; References; Chapter 5: The Being in Activity in Leontiev's Work and the Social Nature of Psychism; 1Department of Psychology, State University of Maringá (UEM), Paraná, Brazil; Abstract; Introduction; The Search to Overcome Dualism in the Philosophic Conceptions of Psychology; The Conscious Activity of the Social Being; The Path of Conscious Activity; References; Editor's Contact Information; Index.

This book unites theoretical research which focuses on the studies of the two Soviet authors that created Historical-Cultural Psychology: L.S. Vygotsky and A.N. Leontiev. Currently, several publications appear to distort facts and concepts of the authors and make statements that tarnish the works of Vygotsky and Leontiev. The book is organized into two sections. Section one begins with an analysis of contemporary studies that claim they are based on Vygotsky, seeking to prove that many studies end up distorting the author's ideas. The following two chapters conduct a historical study of the.

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