Andy Blunden

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.

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.

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

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. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
2. 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