Talk given at the Monash Education Research Community, within the Department of Education at Monash University, by Andy Blunden on 20 April 2010.

The talk is the first of a two-part seminar for the International Course on Cultural Historical Activity Theory. It covers the contributions to this current of thought derived from Descartes, J G Herder, Goethe and Hegel. Part Two, deals with Marx. See marx.org/subject/philosophy/german.htm for readings, home.mira.net/~andy/works/origins-chat.htm for text of this talk and ethicalpolitics.org/chat/Genealogy-CHAT.htm for a diagram of the historical sources of CHAT more widely.

Part I

Part II

The second lecture in the series, this talk looks at Marx’s critique of Hegel and his appropriation of the concept of «Activity,» and covers a number of other issues in various writings of Karl Marx, highlighting the particular contribution to Cultural Historical Activity Theory that is to be gained in each case. See marx.org/archive/marx/works/sw/course/xmca.pdf for the texts covered in this talk.

Fuente: http://home.mira.net/~andy/index.htm