Concepts: A Critical Approach - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 44

Drawing on the work of renowned psychological theorist Lev Vygotsky, Blunden extends his work begun with Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity

List of contents

Introduction
Part I. Contemporary Theory
1. The Psychology of Concepts
2. Narratives and Metaphors
3. Conceptual Change and Linguistics
4. Robert Brandom on Concepts
5. Where we are Now with Concepts
Part II. Hegel
6. The Story of the Concept
7. Hegel’s Logic
8. The Genesis of the Concept
9. The Realisation of the Concept
10. Hegel’s Psychology
Part III. From Philosophy to the Human Sciences
11. The Critical Appropriation of Hegel
12. Sources of Cultural Psychology
Part IV. Vygotsky
13. Concepts in Childhood
14. Vygotsky on ‘True Concepts’
15. Concepts and Activity
Part V. Conclusion.
Acknowledgments
References
Index

About the author

Andy Blunden is an independent scholar in Melbourne, Australia. Andy works with the Independent Social Research Network and the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy and has run a Hegel Summer School since 1998. Andy retired from Melbourne University in 2002.

Summary

Drawing on the work of renowned psychological theorist Lev Vygotsky, Blunden extends his work begun with Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity

Foreword

Title will be prominently featured at all of the academic conferences we attend

Promotion to coincide with the annual Historical Materialism conference, which has a growing academic audience (400 graduate students and professors in 2010)

Reviews will be sought from left leaning academic journals

Product details

• Authors: Andy Blunden, Blunden Andy
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2014
• EAN: 9781608462834
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-283-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences; Studies in Critical Social Sci; Studies in Critical Social Sciences
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Methodology, Social, group or collective psychology