Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky: Essays on Social Philosophy

Author:   Andy Blunden
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Pages:   432
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Author:   Andy Blunden
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   195
Weight:   0.874kg
ISBN:  

9789004466869


ISBN 10:   900446686
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   11 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements Analytical Contents List List of Illustrations Introduction 1 What Is the Difference between Hegel and Marx? 1 The Main Difference between Hegel and Marx Is the Times They Lived In 2 The Young Marx vs. Hegel on the State 3 Hegel and Marx on Universal Suffrage 4 Marx and Hegel on the State 5 Hegel's Misogyny 6 Hegel's Failure to See the Contradiction in the Value of Commodities 7 Universal Suffrage and Participatory Democracy 8 In What Sense Was Hegel an Idealist? 9 Turning Hegel on His head 10 Goethe, Hegel and Marx 11 Summary 2 The Unit of Analysis and Germ Cell in Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky 1 Part 1: From Goethe to Marx 2 Part 2: Vygotsky and Activity Theory 3 Concrete Historicism as a Research Paradigm 1 Structuralism and Abstract Historicism 2 Concrete Historicism 3 The Germ Cell 4 Conclusion 4 Perezhivanie as Human Self-Creation 1 Introduction 2 No Mystery 3 An Experience 4 Etymology 5 Catharsis 6 Personality 7 Continuity and Discontinuity 8 Unity 9 Lived Experiences 10 Units 11 Development 12 Reflection 13 Examples 14 Critiques 15 Perezhivaniya on the Social-Historical Plane 16 Conclusion 5 Agency 1 The Domains of Self-Determination 2 Free Will 3 The Natural Will 4 The Development of the Will in Childhood 5 Self-Control 6 Acquisition of Ideals 7 Perezhivaniya 8 Freedom and the State 9 Voluntary Association 10 Alliance Politics 11 Conclusion 6 Tool and Sign in Vygotsky's Development 1 Part 1: Ape, Primitive Man and Child 2 Part 2: Tool and Sign in Vygotsky after 1930 3 Part 3. Marx, Engels, Vygotsky and the Marxist Tradition 4 Conclusion 7 Vygotsky's Theory of Child Development 1 The Concepts of Vygotsky's Periodisation 2 Social Situation of Development 3 Central Neoformation 4 Lines of Development 5 Age Levels 6 Self-Relation and the Crisis Periods 7 'Leading Activity' and Zone of Proximal Development 8 The Concept of Object 1 The Various Concepts of Object 2 Hegel's Objekt and Gegenstand 3 Objective and Universal 4 Marx's Critique of Hegel and Feuerbach 5 Arbeitsgegenstand - The Object to Be Worked Upon 6 Object-Concept 7 Boundary Objects 8 The Object of a Project 9 Conclusion 9 Leontyev's Activity Theory and Social Theory 1 Part 1: Objects and Activities in Leontyev's Activity Theory 2 Part 2: Leontyev's Theory of the Personality 3 Part 3: A 'Project' as an Activity 10 Fedor Vasilyuk's Psychology of Life-Projects 1 Otnoshiniye ( ) 2 The Lifeworld ( ) 3 Perezhivanie ( ) 4 Types of perezhivanie 5 Social Theory 11 The Invention of Nicaraguan Sign Language 1 Introduction 2 Vygotsky on the Ideal Form 3 Deaf Children in Nicaragua 4 The Effect of the 1979 Revolution 5 aprias(Association to Help and Integrate the Deaf) 6 Was ansnic Acting Alone? 7 Minimal Conditions for Acquisition of a Sign Language 8 In What Sense May the Case of nsl Be Generalised? 9 The Development of Language Communities 10 Goldin-Meadow on the Structure of Personal Sign 11 Conclusion 12 Language in Human Evolution 1 The Co-evolution of Animal Behaviour and Biology 2 Bipedalism 3 Delayed Gratification 4 Voluntary Control and Conscious Awareness 5 Speech 6 Conclusions 13 Power, Activity and Human Flourishing 1 Collaborative Project as a Unit of Social Life 2 The Abuse of Power 3 The Human Subject 4 Political Economy 14 Vaccine Hesitancy 1 Risk Culture and Healthism 2 Trust 3 The 'vh Compass' 4 Conclusion 5 Postscript 2020 15 Something Worth Dying For? 1 Foreign fighters 2 Who Wants to Be a Foreign Fighter? 3 Conclusion 16 Capital and the Urpraxis of Socialism 0 Preliminaries 1 Part 1: Goethe, Hegel, Marx, Vygotsky 2 Part 2 17 Virtue and Utopia 1 Internal Goods 2 Problems with MacIntyre's Virtue Ethics 3 Consequentialism and Deontology 4 Virtue Ethics 5 Practical Anarchism and Virtue Ethics 6 Goals and Motives 7 Ethics and Utopia 8 The Virtues of Practices 9 Summary 10 The Question of Delegation and Hierarchy 11 Conclusion 18 The Origins of Collective Decision Making (Synopsis) 1 The Question 2 Research Methodology 3 Collective Decisions without Voting 4 Counsel 5 Where Did Majority Come From? 6 Origins of Majority 7 The Development of Majoritarianism 8 Crisis of Majoritarianism 9 The Quakers and Consensus 10 Myles Horton and Consensus in sncc 11 James Lawson and Consensus in sncc 12 Women Strike for Peace 13 1968 and After 14 Conclusion 15 Postscript 19 False Heroes and Villains 1 Villains and False Heroes 2 John Howard 3 The Right-Wing Populist Narrative 4 An Alternative Left-Wing Narrative 20 Amartya Sen on Critical Voice and Social Choice Theory 1 The Critique of Distributive Justice 2 Amartya Sen 3 Human Needs and Social Justice 4 Utilitarianism and Positivism 5 Utilitarianism and the Real Ethic of Bourgeois Society 6 Sen's Critique of Social Choice Theory 7 Conclusion 21 Comments on 'Social Capital' 22 Nancy Fraser on Welfare Dependency 1 Pre-Capitalist Society 2 Wage Labour 3 Domestic Labour 4 Public Assistance 5 Universal and Targeted Benefits 6 Dependency as a Personality Trait 7 Building Capacity vs. Philanthropy 8 The Ideology of Self-Help 23 Anthony Giddens on Structuration 1 The Knowledgeability of Social Actors 2 Routines 3 Practical Consciousness 4 Concepts and Motives 5 Unintended Consequences and Conceptual Development 6 Institutions and Social Movements 7 Conclusion 24 Bourdieu on Status, Class and Culture 1 Capital 2 Field and Habitus 3 Class and Habitus 4 Cultural Capital and Educational Capital 5 Social Capital, Body Capital, Linguistic Capital, Political Capital 6 Cultural Relativism 7 Idealism 8 Political Opinion Formation 9 Systems of Status Subordination 10 Social Capital Theory 11 Axel Honneth's Criticism of Bourdieu 12 Subjectivity 13 Conclusion 25 The Coronavirus Pandemic Is a World Perezhivanie 26 As of 2020, the American Century Is Over References Index

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Andy Blunden is an independent scholar in Melbourne. He has published on Soviet Psychology, Hegel's philosophy and the foundations of political science. Andy has served as editor of Mind, Culture, and Activity and as Secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive.

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