Thank you Andy for the warm welcome.

I think you are right. It is hard to point out an exact and direct
reference to Hegel in Vygotsky's works. I have not explored Vygotsky's
work on art though and perhaps something is to be found there.

His concern about psychology's unit of analysis is totally inspired by
Hegelian thought. He thought of a Notion in "word meaning", no doubt
about it.

You are right. The main link between Hegel and Vygotsky is contained
in the Logic. I just wanted to explore the issue of identity and
personality or the continuum of the individual in the subject, which
is so overlooked and problematic in the Social Sciences. Most of the
problems related to agency come from the misunderstanding of
individual/subject. I am still reading the Philosophy of Right and it
is extraordinary how Hegel views the individual and the collective. I
am thinking about his idea of civil society.

Best,

Arturo

2008/11/15 Andy Blunden <ablunden@...>:
> Hi Arturo.
>
> Hegel+Vygotsky, +Marx, is my interest as well, and I am very
> interested in the synergy between Hegel and Vygotsky.
> Unfortunately, most students of Vygotsky have never read
> Hegel, though they would have heard of him of course.
>
> I have checked all the references to Hegel by Vygotsky in
> the Collected Works of LS Vygotsky, the English translation,
> and every one of them are I believe derivative. Either
> quoting Lenin's Philosophical Notebooks quoting Hegel or
> Engels' Dialectics of Nature on Hegel, or in some cases
> generalities which would have been common knowledge in the
> milieu in which he moved at the time.
>
> So it is my belief that Vygotsky kind of absorbed
> Hegelianism from the atmosphere in which he worked, which
> was not only saturated with dialectical thought, but was for
> all its faults a kind of living dialectic, a highly
> reflexive moment in history.
>
> You will find on my home page a number of works exploring
> Hegel-Vygotsky relations, but I think it is mainly to the
> Logic that I would look rather than the Philosophy of Right.
>
> Andy Blunden
>
> Arturo Escandon wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello there.
>>
>> I am new to the list. I live in Japan but study at distance in the UK.
>> I am currently doing my PhD and I am exploring the links between
>> Hegel's works and Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky's theories on
>> mind and action.
>>
>> I think Hegel's Science of Right contains some important ideas about
>> identity/personality and I would like to explore those issues with you
>> if possible, as well as many other issues as well.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Arturo J Escandon
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