Andy Blunden

Andy Blunden (born 11 October 1945) is an Australian historian, writer, and Marxist philosopher, ^[1] who is 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. ^[2] 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 Karl Marx and his ideas. ^[3] His published works cover topics from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to post-structuralism to ethics and politics. Blunden is a self-described "Hegelian Marxist with a 'pragmatist twist' using Lev Vygotsky". ^[4]

Works

Books

• Beyond Betrayal. 1991.
• Stalinism: Its Origin & Future. Marxists.org. 1993.
• Meaning of Hegel's Logic. 1997. At Wikisource.
• Ethical Politics. Heidelberg Press. 2003. Archived from the original on 10 February 2016.
• An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity. Leiden: Brill, 2010 (hardback); Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012 (paperback).
• Selected Writings on the Semiotics of Modernity. Erythros Press and Media. 2012.
• Concepts: A Critical Approach. Leiden: Brill, 2012 (hardback); Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014 (paperback).
• Collaborative Projects. An Interdisciplinary Study. (editor) Leiden: Brill, 2014 (hardback); Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016 (paperback).
• The Origins of Collective Decision Making. Leiden: Brill, 2016 (hardback); Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017 (paperback).
• Hegel for Social Movements. Brill. 2019.
• Hegel, Marx & Vygotsky. Essays in Social Philosophy. 2021.

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.

See also

• Aleksei N. Leontiev
• Critical Psychology
• Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)
• Cultural-historical psychology
• Kharkov School of Psychology
• Vygotsky Circle

References

1. Cole, Michael (2011). "*BOOK REVIEW: Andy Blunden (2010): An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity, Leiden, Boston: Brill". Outlines. Critical Practice Studies. 13 (1): 46–52. doi: 10.7146/ocps.v13i1.4243 . S2CID   142830596.
2. Blunden, Andy. "Information about Andy Blunden". Marxists Internet Archive . Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
3. Blunden, Andy. "Marx Myths & Legends". Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
4. "On Method by Andy Blunden 2005". Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2015.

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