Andy Blunden Explained

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

• Book: Beyond Betrayal . 1991.
• Book: Stalinism: Its Origin & Future . Marxists.org . 1993.
• Book: Meaning of Hegel's Logic . 1997. At Wikisource.
• Book: Ethical Politics . Heidelberg Press . 2003 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160210114328/http://ethicalpolitics.org/blackwood/fep/index.htm . 2016-02-10.
• An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity. Leiden: Brill, 2010 (hardback); Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012 (paperback).
• Book: 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).
• Book: Hegel for Social Movements . Brill . 2019.
• Book: 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

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

Notes and 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 . 10.7146/ocps.v13i1.4243 . 142830596 . free.
2. Web site: Blunden . Andy . Information about Andy Blunden . . 3 September 2018 . 16 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180816151730/https://www.marxists.org/admin/volunteers/biographies/ablunden.htm . live .
3. Web site: Blunden . Andy . Marx Myths & Legends . 3 September 2018 . 3 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180903215301/https://marxmyths.org/intro.php . live .
4. Web site: On Method by Andy Blunden 2005 . 9 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151210212459/http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/works/method.htm . 10 December 2015 . dead.