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During his ten-year period of systematic work in psychology, Lev Semenovich Vygotsky launched a series of investigations in developmental psychology, education, and psychopathology, many of which were interrupted by his untimely death. The Essential Vygotsky is a selection of the writings of Vygotsky (1896-1934), taken from the six volumes of Collected Works that have appeared both in Russian and in English translation. The editors have endeavored to choose the most important and most interesting contributions from all types of Vygotsky's writings, and thus from all six volumes, so as to reflect the overall purpose of the program that Vygotsky was developing at the time of his early death. The introductory essays for each section explore various aspects of Vygotsky's biography, in order to more clearly explain certain parts of his work and his writing. Vygotsky's work has been influential not only among developmental psychologists, but has become increasingly important to other disciplines, such as anthropology and sociology, and in the application of psychology in such areas as education, human-computer interface design, and the organization of work.

2012 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Vygotsky's closely reasoned, highly readable analysis of the nature of verbal thought as based on word meaning marks a significant step forward in the growing effort to understand cognitive processes. Speech is, he argues, social in origins. Speech is learned from others and, at first used entirely for affective and social functions. Only with time does it come to have self-directive properties that eventually result in internalized verbal thought. A classic work.

A new edition of a foundational work of cognitive science that outlines a theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions. Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's Thought and Language has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Its 1962 English translation must certainly be considered one of the most important and influential books ever published by the MIT Press. In this highly original exploration of human mental development, Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is social in its origins and that only as children develop does it become internalized verbal thought. In 1986, the MIT Press published a new edition of the original translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar, edited by Vygotsky scholar Alex Kozulin, that restored the work's complete text and added materials to help readers better understand Vygotsky's thought. Kozulin also contributed an introductory essay that offered new insight into Vygotsky's life, intellectual milieu, and research methods. This expanded edition offers Vygotsky's text, Kozulin's essay, a subject index, and a new foreword by Kozulin that maps the ever-growing influence of Vygotsky's ideas.

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A new edition of a foundational work of cognitive science that outlines a theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions. Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's Thought and Language has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Its 1962 English translation must certainly be considered one of the most important and influential books ever published by the MIT Press. In this highly original exploration of human mental development, Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is social in its origins and that only as children develop does it become internalized verbal thought. In 1986, the MIT Press published a new edition of the original translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar, edited by Vygotsky scholar Alex Kozulin, that restored the work's complete text and added materials to help readers better understand Vygotsky's thought. Kozulin also contributed an introductory essay that offered new insight into Vygotsky's life, intellectual milieu, and research methods. This expanded edition offers Vygotsky's text, Kozulin's essay, a subject index, and a new foreword by Kozulin that maps the ever-growing influence of Vygotsky's ideas.

Dans l'esprit de la collection 'texte de base en psychologie', cet ouvrage présente des textes importants de Vygotsky et des analyses d'écrits du psychologue. Il apporte un éclairage sur son analyse de la crise de la psychologie, sur son affirmation de l'origine sociale des fonctions psychiques supérieures, sur l'accent qu'il porte sur le rôle des significations verbales.

This BIT offers an excerpt from a foundational work of cognitive science—considered one of the most important and influential books ever published by the MIT Press—that outlines a theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions.

El presente libro, que desde su aparicion ya se ha convertido en todo un clasico, es el que revelo a Lev Vygotsky como una de las fuerzas teoricas mas vivas e impetuosas del pensamiento contemporaneo, un hombre con una fama e influencia cada vez mayores. Esta edicion revisada y ampliada de una obra tan venerada contiene gran cantidad de material nuevo y muchas referencias de las que no se disponia anteriormente, pero las ideas del autor conservan la misma frescura e identica capacidad de conviccion. A partir de ahi, la conclusion que extraera el lector es clara: en el ambito del pensamiento relacionado con la psicologia y la linguistica, nadie nos ha ensenado mejor que Vygotsky como armonizar las exigencias del individuo con las de la sociedad y la cultura. Y nadie, tampoco, se ha atrevido a pergenar, con tanta perspicacia y a la vez rigor cientifico, una teoria general de las raices geneticas del pensamiento y el lenguaje, iluminado simultaneamente algunos de los mas importantes aspectos colaterales del tema; desde el descubrimiento de los singulares modos en que se desarrollan los conceptos cientificos del nino, hasta la clarificacion experimental de la naturaleza del lenguaje interno en su relacion con el pensamiento, pasando por la demostracion de la naturaleza psicologica especifica del lenguaje escrito. La presente edicion cuenta con un prologo de Alex Lozulin que constituye, no solo la mejor sintesis escrita hasta la fecha sobre la vida y la obra de Vygotsky, sino tambien una excelente aportacion a la historia de la psicologia del siglo XX.