Concepts

A Critical Approach

Andy Blunden (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2012
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-22847-4 (ISBN)

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This book offers an overview of theories of the Concept, drawing on the philosopher Hegel and the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Concepts are shown to be both units of the mind and units of a cultural formation.

Andy Blunden presents a critical review of theories of Concepts in cognitive psychology, analytical philosophy, linguistics, conceptual change theory and other disciplines. The problems in these disciplines has led many to abandon the idea of Concepts altogether, particularly those taking an interactionist approach. Blunden responds with an historical review focussing on the idealist philosophy of Hegel, its reception and transformation in the development of positive science and finally the cultural psychology of Lev Vygotsky. He then proposes an approach to Concepts which draws on Activity Theory. Concepts are equally subjective and objective, units of consciousness and of the cultural formation of which one is a part. This continues the author’s earlier work in An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity (Brill 2010).

Andy Blunden is an independent scholar in Melbourne, Australia. He works with the Independent Social Research Network and the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. His Interdisciplinary Theory of Activitywas published by Brill in 2010.

Introduction
Part I. Contemporary Theory
1. The Psychology of Concepts
2. Narratives and Metaphors
3. Conceptual Change and Linguistics
4. Robert Brandom on Concepts
5. Where we are Now with Concepts
Part II. Hegel
6. The Story of the Concept
7. Hegel’s Logic
8. The Genesis of the Concept
9. The Realisation of the Concept
10. Hegel’s Psychology
Part III. From Philosophy to the Human Sciences
11. The Critical Appropriation of Hegel
12. Sources of Cultural Psychology
Part IV. Vygotsky
13. Concepts in Childhood
14. Vygotsky on ‘True Concepts’
15. Concepts and Activity
Part V. Conclusion.
Acknowledgments
References
Index

Reihe/Serie	Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 44
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	623 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-22847-0 / 9004228470
ISBN-13	978-90-04-22847-4 / 9789004228474
Zustand	Neuware