Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky : essays on social philosophy
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Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky : essays on social philosophy
（Studies in critical social sciences, v. 195）
Brill, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-424) and index
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Andy Blunden's Hegel Marx & Vygotsky, Essays in Social Philosophy presents his novel approach to social theory in a series of essays. Blunden aims to use the cultural psychology of Lev Vygotsky and the Soviet Activity Theorists to renew Hegelian Marxism as an interdisciplinary science. This allows psychologists and social theorists to share their insights through concepts equally valid in either domain. The work includes critical reviews of the works of central figures in Soviet psychology and other writers offering fruitful insights. Essays on topics as diverse as vaccine scepticism and the origins of language test out the interdisciplinary power of the theory, as well as key texts on historical analysis, methodology and the nature of the present conjuncture.
Table of Contents
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
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