Understanding Educational Psychology: A Late Vygotskian, Spinozist Approach

by Alfredo Jornet and Wolff-Michael Roth

Book Overview

This book takes up the agenda of the late (but unknown) L. S. Vygotsky, who had turned to the philosopher Spinoza to develop a holistic approach to psychology, an approach that no longer dichotomized the body and mind, intellect and affect, or the individual and the social. In this approach, there is only one substance, which manifests itself in different ways in the thinking body, including as biology and culture. The manifestation as culture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319398679
• ISBN13: 9783319398679
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"