Concepts

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

ix, 308 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

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.

Readership

Those interested in all currents Psychology, particularly educational psychology, education and development, and in Critical Theory, Linguistics, Hegel, Philosophy of Mind, Marxism, Social and Political Science, mostly undergraduates and graduates.

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

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