Vygotsky Archive

Lev Vygotsky Archive

1896-1934

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“‘Marxist’ psychology ... is developing before our eyes, ... it does not yet have its own methodology and attempts to find it ready-made in the haphazard psychological statements of the founders of Marxism, not to mention the fact that to find a ready-made formula of the mind in the writings of others would mean to demand ‘science before science itself.”. Consciousness as a problem in the psychology of behavior.

Biography

Obituary by Alexander Luria, 1935

Image Gallery

Works:

The methods of reflexological and psychological investigation, based on his January 1924 presentation to the 2nd All-Russian Congress on Psychoneurology. 

The Psychology of Art, (written 1917) 1925

Consciousness as a problem in the Psychology of Behavior, 1925

Educational Psychology, 1926

Historical meaning of the crisis in Psychology, 1927

The Problem of the Cultural Development of the Child, 1929

The Fundamental Problems of Defectology, 1929

The Socialist alteration of Man, 1930

The Instrumental Method in Psychology, 1930

Primitive Man and his Behavior, c. 1930

Adolescent Pedagogy, 1931

On the Problem of the Psychology of the Actor’s Creative Work, 1932

Play and its role in the Mental development of the Child, 1933

Thinking and Speech, 1934

Tool and symbol in child development, 1934

The Problem of Consciousness, 1934

The Problem of Age, 1934

The Vygotsky Reader, from Leiden University

 

Subject Archive: 

Vygotsky on Literature and Art

Table of Contents for L S Vygotsky’s Collected Works

The “Vygotsky School”:

A N Leontyev Archive

A R Luria Archive

Alexander Meshcheryakovov Archive

Feliks Mikhailov Archive

Evald Ilyenkov Archive

Further reading:

Lev Vygostsky – Revolutionary Scientist, Fred Newman and Lois Holzman

Comment on Vygostsky's Thinking and Speaking, Jean Piaget 1962

Methods for investigating concepts, Leonid Sakharov 1928

Lectures on the Work of the Cerebral Hemisphere, Pavlov, 1924

The Development of the Child, A R Luria, 1930

The Construction of Reality in the Child, Jean Piaget, 1955

Vygotsky and the Dialectical Method, Andy Blunden 1997

The Vygotsky School, Andy Blunden 2001

Archive maintained by Andy Blunden.