Andy Blunden
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Andy Blunden (born 11 October 1945) is an Australian writer and Marxist philosopher[1] based in Melbourne.
Biography
Blunden is a member and secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive Collective (or Marxists.org), a website which contains many Marxist and Marxist related text on history, philosophy and politics along with many other topics.[citation needed]
Another internet project Blunden is involved with is the "Marx Myths & Legends". This website hosts many articles of prominent Marxian scholars and activists dealing with misunderstandings and slander surrounding Marx and his ideas.[citation needed]
His published works cover topics from Hegel to post-structuralism to ethics and politics. Blunden is a self-described "Hegelian Marxist with a 'pragmatist twist' using Lev Vygotsky."[2]
See also
- Aleksei N. Leontiev
- Critical Psychology
- Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)
- Cultural-historical psychology
- Kharkov School of Psychology
- Vygotsky Circle
Footnotes
- ^ Cole, Michael (2011). "*BOOK REVIEW: Andy Blunden (2010): An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity, Leiden, Boston: Brill". Outlines. Critical Practice Studies. 13 (1): 46–52. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
- ^ On Method by Andy Blunden 2005
Works
Books
- Stalinism: Its Origin & Future. 1993.
- Meaning of Hegel's Logic. 1997. | At Wikisource
- For Ethical Politics. 2003.
- An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012.
- Selected Writings on the Semiotics of Modernity. Erythros Press and Media, 2012.
- Concepts: A Critical Approach. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014.
Contributions
- "Foreword" to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Logic: Being Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. [1830] Marxists Internet Archive Publications, 2009.
External links
- Andy Blunden's Home Page
- Transcript from ABC Radio National's "perspective" Ethical Politics
- The Blackwood Group
- Hegel: The First Cultural Psychologist Video from Vimeo