1st Edition
Vygotsky and Marx Toward a Marxist Psychology
Introduction: Recovering and Advancing Vygotsky’s Marxist Psychology Carl Ratner & Daniele Nunes Henrique Silva 1. Marxist Psychology, Vygotsky’s Cultural Psychology, and Psychoanalysis: The Double Helix of Science and Politics Carl Ratner 2. The Development Of Consciousness And The Concept Formation: Contributions From Marx and Vygotsky Larissa Bulhões and Lígia Márcia Martins 3. The Problem of Work, Consciousness, and Sign In Human Development Daniele Nunes Henrique Silva, Ilana Paiva Lemos, Lavinia Magiolino 4. The Germ Cell in Marx and Vygotsky Andy Blunden 5. What Makes Vygotsky's Theory of Psychology a Marxist Theory? Peter Feigenbaum 6. Imagination and Creative Activity: Ontological And Epistemological Principles of The Contributions of Vygotsky Katia Maheirie and Andrea Vieira Zanella 7. Materialist Dialectics in Vygotsky’s Methodological Framework: Implications for Second Language Education Research Jim Lantolf 8. Social constructionist interpretation of Vygotsky Eduardo Moura da Costa and Silvana Calvo Tuleski. Index
Biography
Carl Ratner is Director of the Institute for Cultural Research and Education, USA, and has developed the field of cultural psychology in generally Marxist directions.
Daniele Nunes Henrique Silva is Professor of Psychology and supervisor of the postgraduate program in Human Development Process and Health in the Department of Educational and Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brazil.
