Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky

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.

Publication date: November 15, 2022

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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