Abstract
This is a personal account on an investigation brought about along six years over the work of the Russian psychologist, Lev S. Vygotsky. The title echoes the distancing attitude that, unexpectedly for him, the author kept when he began deepening the Vygotsky's writings. This attitude took later a new course when the historical and circumstantial influences that gave shape to the psychological thinking of Vygotsky became transparent. Some of these influences belonged to domain of ideas: Hegel and Marx; others came from his contemporary psychology: Pavlov, Gestalt, Piaget, Janet, Stern; and other tragically coercive influence arouse from the imposition of a totalitarian sovieto-marxist ideology. All these of influences summed, made Vygotsky an historical more than today figure. As result, this study on Vygotsky, that follows a detailed analysis of his work, stands in a middle way between a scarcely unobjectionable appraisal of one part of his thinking and the recognition of some brilliant inspired ideas that aptly recontextualized can be of enduring value.
Highlights
This is a personal account on an investigation brought about along six years over the work of the Russian psychologist, Lev S
We must tray to separate fiction from falsification and strain our gaze so as to recognise the lineaments of truth from those retouchings
The removal of the fabulous, the destruction of whatis deceiving may satisfy the critic.The historian, requiressomething positive; he must discover at least some probable connection and put a more plausible narrative in the place of that which he has to sacrifice to his conviction. (Niebuhr, 1811)1
Summary
This is a personal account on an investigation brought about along six years over the work of the Russian psychologist, Lev S.
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