tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33273315.post564044423811583381..comments2023-07-16T04:38:04.407-05:00Comments on Spinuzzi: Reading :: The History of the Development of Higher Mental FunctionsClay Spinuzzihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13356273383001825508noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33273315.post-41718355099092113582019-08-06T08:37:47.184-05:002019-08-06T08:37:47.184-05:00*NOTE: I state that HDHMF was originally published...*NOTE: I state that HDHMF was originally published in 1931, following (I think) the intro in the CW. But Anton Yasnitsky asserts in his biography of Vygotsky that this book wasn't published until long after Vygotsky's death, in 1960! In a personal communication (July 1, 2019) he notes that the title repeats the first words of the text and suggests that it was an unpublished manuscript up to that point, a manuscript that repeats the structure of LSV's 1929 paper -- which I think was the basis for the paper in the 1966 volume mentioned in the review above. <br /><br />Yasnitsky also believes that HMF is a "terminological fake" since LSV insisted on the term "psychological functions" rather than "psychical" (= "mental"). <br /><br />The additional chapters (beyond the first 5) didn't come out until the CW in 1982-1984; Yasnitsky believes that they are from an earlier work.<br /><br />Thanks as always to Yasnitsky for investigating the tangled publication history of these writings!Clay Spinuzzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13356273383001825508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33273315.post-60921095026843892902017-09-09T17:05:19.568-05:002017-09-09T17:05:19.568-05:00PS, I just posted my review on that volume (V3).PS, I just posted my review on that volume (V3).Clay Spinuzzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13356273383001825508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33273315.post-17846153843666657952017-08-08T08:50:48.638-05:002017-08-08T08:50:48.638-05:00Thanks! And yes, I'm getting more of a handle ...Thanks! And yes, I'm getting more of a handle on it. I'm currently reading another volume of the CW with some undated, unpublished texts from his later holistic period. These rethink his HMF argument in really interesting ways. Luria more or less continues this line of thinking in his neuropsychology books, but never with the same freedom of exploration that Vygotsky had. Clay Spinuzzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13356273383001825508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33273315.post-82892869471869145902017-08-08T08:12:59.740-05:002017-08-08T08:12:59.740-05:00Really nice review. I've only just heard of &...Really nice review. I've only just heard of "HDHMF". It looks like Vygotsky is stressing the biological bases a bit more than he does in Thinking & Speech. You must have quite a good feel for the way Vygotsky's thinking developed by now.<br /><br />Ivan<br />https://www.blogger.com/profile/11173073865060093049noreply@blogger.com