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The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky

Problems of General Psychology, Including the Volume Thinking and Speech

  • Interest in Vygotsky in the West is gaining every year, with conferences now being devoted to his thoughts
  • This six-volume set is considered one of the biggest events of Soviet publishing in many years

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Prologue to the English Edition

    1. Prologue to the English Edition

      • Jerome Bruner
      Pages 1-16
  3. The Development of Vygotsky’s Thought: An Introduction

  4. Thinking and Speech

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
    2. Preface

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 39-41
    3. The Problem and the Method of Investigation

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 43-51
    4. The Problem of Speech and Thinking in Piaget’s Theory

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 53-91
    5. Stern’s Theory of Speech Development

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 93-99
    6. The Genetic Roots of Thinking and Speech

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 101-120
    7. An Experimental Study of Concept Development

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 121-166
    8. The Development of Scientific Concepts in Childhood

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 167-241
    9. Thought and Word

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 243-285
  5. Lectures on Psychology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-287
    2. Perception and Its Development in Childhood

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 289-300
    3. Memory and Its Development in Childhood

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 301-310
    4. Thinking and Its Development in Childhood

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 311-324
    5. Emotions and Their Development in Childhood

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 325-337
    6. Imagination and Its Development in Childhood

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 339-349
    7. The Problem of Will and Its Development in Childhood

      • Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton
      Pages 351-358
    8. Afterword to the Russian Edition

      • A. R. Luria
      Pages 359-373

About this book

The Collected Works of Lev Semonovich Vygotsky comprise a series of six volumes, originally published in Moscow by Pedagogika between 1982 and 1984 and comprising the work done by Vygotsky between 1924 and his early death in 1934. The present vol­ ume is the first of this series to appear in English but it is actually Volume 2 in the Russian series. It contains a complete rendition of Thinking and Speech (which may be known to English readers as Thought and Language, the title assigned to an abridged, interpretative translation by Hanfmann and Vakar in 1962) and five Lectures in Psy­ chology which are here published for the first time in English and essentialIy comprise Vygotsky's systematization of psychological theory and data in respect to the develop­ ment in childhood of perception, memory, thinking, emotions, imagination, and will. The volumes which are yet to appear in English are respectively concerned with: (1) theory and history of psychology; (2) problems of developmental psychology; (3) child and adolescent psychology; (4) "defectology" (or "special education" in American par­ lance); and (5) a "scientific archive" consisting of a critique of Spinoza's studies of the passions and an important essay, "Tool and Sign. " The decision by the Translator and Editors to render the title of the first segment of this volume, Mysclzlenie i Rech', as Thinking and Speech and not as Thought and Language, as it was previously translated, was a very intentional one.

Editors and Affiliations

  • John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA

    Robert W. Rieber

  • State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, USA

    Aaron S. Carton

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky

  • Book Subtitle: Problems of General Psychology, Including the Volume Thinking and Speech

  • Editors: Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton

  • Series Title: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1655-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42441-0Published: 31 January 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8919-7Published: 12 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-1655-8Published: 28 April 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 396

  • Topics: General Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Language and Literature

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