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Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity

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ISBN-10: 9004184066

ISBN-13: 9789004184060

Edition: 2010

Authors: Andy Blunden

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Blunden presents a critique of cultural-historical activity theory, the current psychology originating from Lev Vygotsky. The author draws out the principles with which Vygotsky developed a theory of the mind in which the individual and their social situation form a single Gestalt, transcending the problems of mind-body dualism.
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Book details

List price: $166.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: BRILL
Publication date: 4/6/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 348
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

Introduction and Historical Excursus
Introduction
Soviet Cultural Psychology (1924-)
Goethe's Romantic Science
The Young Hegel and What Drove Him
The Phenomenology and 'Formations of Consciousness'
The Phenomenology
The Subject Matter of the Logic
Being, Essence & the Notion
Subjectivity and Culture
Hegel's Psychology and Spirit
Hegel's Psychology
Marx's Critique of Hegel
Marx and the Foundations of Activity Theory
Activity
Social Formations
Marx's Critique of Political Economy
Abstraction
The Commodity Relation
Conclusions from this Historical Excursus
Lev Vygotsky
Vygotsky's Critique of Behaviorism
Vygotsky's Hegelianism
Behaviorism
Vygotsky's Sources and Influences
Vygotsky and Luria on Romantic Science
Luria
Vygotsky on Units and Microcosms
Unit of Analysis
Vygotsky on Gestalt and Bildung
The Higher Psychological Functions
The Social Situation of Development
Vygotsky on Concepts
The Significance of Vygotsky's Legacy
Activity Theory
Activity
Interdisciplinary Concept
The General Conception of "Activity"
Activity as the Substance of a Science
Gadamer on the Hermeneutic Circle
Criticisms of Vygotsky's Concept of Activity
Vygotsky's Unit of Analysis for Consciousness
Leontyev's Criticism of Vygotsky's Unit of Analysis
Meshcheryakov's Work
Vygotsky's Cultural Psychology
Bakhtin
Leontyev's Anatomy of Activity
Levels of Activity
The Standpoint of Activity Theory
Leontyev's Methodology
Some Outstanding Problems
Leontyev's Activity Theory and Marx's Political Economy
The Object of Labor under Capital
Groups as a Model of Sociality
Yrj� Engestr�m's Model
Michael Cole and Cross-Cultural Psychology
What is Context?
History and Culture
The Results of this Immanent Critique
An Interdisciplinary Approach
Collaborative Projects
Ethics and Collaboration
Social Science and Ethics
Collaboration with Strangers
The Ethics of Collaboration
Marx's Critique of Political Economy and Activity Theory
Collaboration and Exchange
Projects and Firms
Towards a Taxonomy of Activity
Genre, Frame and Field
Collaborative Projects and Identity
Collaborative Projects and Agency
Emancipatory Science
Conclusion
Cultural Psychology and Critical Theory
Science and Survival
Acknowledgements
References
Index