Vygotsky and Marx

Carl Ratner is Director of the Institute for Cultural Research and Education, USA, and has developed the field of cultural psychology in generally Marxist directions.Daniele Nunes Henrique Silva is Professor of Psychology and supervisor of the postgraduate program in Human Development Process and Health in the Department of Educational and Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brazil.

• Notes on contributors Introduction: recovering and advancing Vygotsky’s Marxist psychology Carl Ratner and Daniele Nunes Henrique SilvaPART I Toward a Marxist psychology1 Marxist psychology, Vygotsky’s cultural psychology, and psychoanalysis: the double helix of science and politics Carl RatnerPART II Marxist epistemological and methodological aspects of Vygotsky’s psychology2 Marxist methodological foundations in Vygotsky’s work Larissa Bulhões and Lígia Márcia Martins3 The problem of work, consciousness, and sign in human development Daniele Nunes Henrique Silva, Ilana Lemos de Paiva, and Lavínia Lopes Salomão Magiolino4 The germ cell of Vygotsky’s science Andy Blunden5 What makes Vygotsky’s theory of psychology a Marxist theory? Peter Feigenbaum PART III Psychological applications of Vygotsky’s Marxism6 Imagination and creative activity: ontological and epistemological principles of Vygotsky’s contributionsKátia Maheirie and Andréa Vieira Zanella7 Materialist dialectics in Vygotsky’s methodological framework: implications for applied linguistics research James P. Lantolf8 Constructionist interpretation of Vygotsky: a theoretical–methodological study of the concept of language Eduardo Moura da Costa and Silvana Calvo TuleskiIndex