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With clarity, wit, and precision, Andy Bluden offers a trailblazing attempt to unite Soviet Activity Theory and Hegalian Marxism
List 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
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About the author
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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With clarity, wit, and precision, Andy Bluden offers a trailblazing attempt to unite Soviet Activity Theory and Hegalian Marxism
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