Vygotsky and Leontiev: The Construction of a Marxist Psychology

$275.00

Silvana Calvo Tuleski (Editor)
State University of Maringa, Maringa, Brazil

Series: Capitalism, Counter-Capitalism, and Psychology
BISAC: PSY015000

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 author (his work and its context) and seek to introduce the reader to concepts of materiality and undeniable affiliation to Communism as well as historical dialectical materialism. Section two consists of two chapters that propose problems in the alleged rift between Vygotsky and Leontiev based on history and documented sources. Lastly, this book seeks to demonstrate through the use of an in-depth study of Leontiev’s work that he did not become mechanistic, but continued to elaborate on a theory of Vygotsky’s which depicts the social formation of psyche through activity.
(Imprint: Nova)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter One
The Western Interpretation of Vygotsky’s Works
(Silvana Calvo Tuleski, Department of Psychology – Pós-Graduate Program in Psychology – State University of Maringá, UEM, Paraná, Brazil)

Chapter Two
From the Material Revolution to the Psychological Revolution: The Foundation of the Communist Psychology of Vygotsky
(Silvana Calvo Tuleski, Department of Psychology – Pós-Graduate Program in Psychology – State University of Maringá, UEM, Paraná, Brazil)

Chapter Three
Formation of Consciousness: A Jump from Evolution to Revolution in Human Behavior
(Silvana Calvo Tuleski, Department of Psychology – Pós-Graduate Program in Psychology – State University of Maringá, UEM, Paraná, Brazil)

Chapter Four
Vygotsky & Leontiev: Undoing Some Knots of Soviet Psychology
(Rhayane Lourenço da Silva, Silvana Calvo Tuleski, Department of Psychology – Pós-Graduate Program in Psychology – State University of Maringá, UEM, Paraná, Brazil)

Chapter Five
The Being in Activity in Leontiev’s Work and the Social Nature of Psychism
(Rhayane Lourenço da Silva, Silvana Calvo Tuleski, Department of Psychology – Pós-Graduate Program in Psychology – State University of Maringá, UEM, Paraná, Brazil)

Index

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