L.S.

Vygotsky
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The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky
Problems of General Psychology, Including the Volume Thinking and Speech

Series: Cognition and Language: A Series in Psycholinguistics

▶ 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

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
1988, X, 396 p. 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
Printed book 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
Hardcover volumes which are yet to appear in English are respectively concerned with: (1) theory
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and (5) a "scientific archive" consisting of a critique of Spinoza's studies of the passions
eBook 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
Available from your library or Speech and not as Thought and Language, as it was previously translated, was a very
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