Vygotsky : an intellectual biography /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yasnitsky, Anton, 1972- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Prophet
  • Gomel years (1896-1913)
  • Jew admitted to the Imperial Moscow University
  • Literary criticism (1914-1916)
  • Beba Vygodskii: the "young Jewish prophet"
  • Russian Revolution (1917-1918)
  • Lev Vygodskii during the Russian Revolution
  • First World War (1914-1918) and its aftermath
  • In Ukrainian Gomel in 1918
  • 2. Bolshevik
  • Gomel during the Russian Civil War
  • "cultural front", Marxism, and the "new man"
  • Lev Vygotsky in Gomel in 1919--1921
  • New Economic Policy (NEP) and the birth of the Soviet Union
  • Vygotsky as a publisher, political activist, and theatrical critic (1922-1923)
  • 3. Reflexologist
  • Vygotsky teaches and lectures
  • Vygotsky's entrance into psychology
  • Teaching about reflexes: Pavlov's and Bekhterev's research methods
  • Vygotsky's new method: "Double Stimulation"
  • Vygotsky and reflexology
  • Second Psychoneurological Congress as a landmark
  • 4. Psychologist
  • Alexander Luria: Vygotsky's alter ego
  • Vygotsky's return to Moscow
  • Marxist practicality and the "new science"
  • variety of "new psychologies"
  • trip to London and its aftermath
  • Vygotsky's three books
  • Psychology as a science about the superman
  • Vygotsky-Luria Circle: people and institutes
  • "Instrumental Psychology"
  • Unexpected discoveries: word meaning, dialogue, and inner speech
  • outcomes of the 1920s
  • 5. Revisionist
  • Stalin's Great Break and the Cultural Revolution
  • Vygotsky's life and career at the turn of the decade
  • Ninth International Psychological Congress and its impact
  • Towards a new psychological theory
  • demise of "reactology"
  • Criticizing Vygotsky
  • Vygotsky criticizes... Vygotsky
  • Expeditions to Central Asia in 1931 and 1932
  • Revisionist conclusion
  • 6. Holist
  • challenge of totality: holistic Gestalt psychology
  • Kurt Lewin's "Galileian" psychology
  • Vygotsky--Luria Circle in the 1930s
  • Major theoretical reconstruction and new experimentation
  • "The threshold of a new theory": the pessimistic finale.