Lev Vygotsky

First Published in 1993. Vygotsky railed against the 'aboutness' that permeated both the form and content of the Western scientific, social-scientific and philosophical traditions they both inherited. This book was written as an introduction of Vygotsky life and works to college and university students.

Fred Newman, who trained in the philosophy of science, teaches at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy in New York. Lois Holzman, a developmental psychologist, also teaches at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy, and at Empire State College, New York.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Vygotsky and psychology; Chapter 2 The laboratory as methodology; Chapter 3 Practice; Chapter 4 The zone of proximal development; Chapter 5 Playing in/with the ZPD; Chapter 6 Reform and revolution in the study of thinking and speech; Chapter 7 Completing the historical Vygotsky; Chapter 8 Logic and psychotherapy;