Questioning Vygotsky's legacy: scientific psychology or heroic cult

Contents
List of illustrations
1. Vygotsky’s science of Superman: from Utopia to concrete psychology (Yasnitsky)
	Lev Vygotsky and “Vygotskian” buzzwords
	Science of Superman: Vygotsky’s utopia
	From utopia to philosophy: Marxism
	From philosophy to a theory and concrete psychology
	“Vygotskian” concrete psychology against the challenges of the
21st century
	Note
	References
2. Vygotsky and Marx – Resetting the  Relationship (Jones)
	Introduction: Vygotsky as Marxist
	Marx and psychology
	Vygotsky reading Marx
	Reflections and conclusion
	Notes
	References
3. Rethinking Vygotsky: a Critical reading of the semiotics in Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory (Zhang)
	Vygotskian semiotics and general semantics
	Language, science, native realism and rationalism
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
4. Vygotsky’s “significant other”: Alexander Luria’s contribution to the development of Vygotsky’s ideas (Lamdan)
	The meteoric rise of Alexander Luria
	Luria brings Vygotsky to Moscow
	Luria expands Vygotsky’s circle
	Luria as one of the “importers” of the Gestalt theory
	Luria’s use of Gestaltist ideas in his study of affective reactions
	Luria and the “Instrumental Psychology” project
	Luria at the Ninth International Congress of Psychology
	From instrumental psychology to psychology of functional systems
	The Central Asian expeditions of 1931–1932
	The unfinished theory and the birth of the Genius
	Notes
5. A history of the social construction of the “cultural-historical” (Keiler)
	Introduction
	1. Development of the autochthonous3 terminology until 1932
	2. Intermediate reflections
	3. The terminology and arguments of the critics in 1931 and 1932
	4. Intermediate résumé
	5. The official introduction of the label “cultural-historical theory” by P.I. Razmyslov (1934)
	6. Constancy and changes in the autochthonous terminology in 1934 to 1936
	7. The terminology of the “Report on a conference of psychologists in the editorial office of the journal ‘Under the Banner of Marxism’” (1936)
	8. Résumé of findings and survey of the development of the discourse after the “rediscovery” of Vygotsky in 1956
	9. Final conclusions
	Notes
	References
6. From Superhumans to Supermediators: locating the extraordinary in CHAT (Spinuzzi)
	The three generations of activity theory
	1GAT: Vygotsky and the superhuman
	2GAT: Leontiev and the supervision of labor
	3GAT: Engeström and supermediators
	Conclusion and Implications
	Toward a 4GAT
	Notes
	References
7. On Vygotsky’s international celebration, or how to critically appropriate authors from the past (García)
	Introduction
	Vygotsky’s ascension to international canon.
	Vygotsky and the past as a source for present research.
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
Index