The Autobiography of Alexander Luria: A Dialogue with The Making of Mind - Softcover

Cole, Michael; Levitin, Karl; Luria, Alexander R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805854991 ISBN 13: 9780805854992

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2005

Synopsis

The Autobiography of Alexander Luria A.R. Luria was one of the most significant psychological researchers and theorists of the 20th century. Luria lived in fear of the Soviet Union and his autobiography was cryptic. Michael Cole has uncovered much personal information since the fall of the Union and this edition has a new introduction and epilogue that adds information and detail. Full description

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"For anyone who is familiar with and admires Alexander Romanovich Luria, this book is a delight. For those who are unfamiliar, or only vaguely familiar with him, it is an astonishing revelation.."
―PsycCRITIQUES

"It is splendid to have available a new edition of Luria's autobiography, together with a new Preface and Epilogue. ... The scientific community will welcome the opportunity to review Luria's scientific life and seminal ideas. And now, from the perspective of life after the USSR, an even wider community of scholars will learn about the extraordinary social context in which he worked."
―Larry R. Squire, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, UCSD School of Medicine and Research

Synopsis:

A.R. Luria was one of the most significant psychological researchers and theorists of the 20th century. He is considered to have founded the field of neuropsychology, and he had a great influence on and was influenced by the work of Lev Vygotsky, whose cultural theory of child development is now very much in vogue. Michael Cole is one of the premier cultural-developmental psychologists of our time and spent several years working with Luria at Moscow State University in the 1960s and 70s. Shortly after Luria's death, he facilitated the publication of his autobiography. However, Luria lived in fear of the Soviet Union and his autobiography was cryptic and avoided any information about the circumstances of his life and how he dealt personally and scientifically with the rapidly shifting, often dangerous, social context in which he worked. Cole has uncovered a good deal of this personal information since the fall of the Soviet Union and this edition of the text will have a new introduction and epilogue that adds crucial information and details about Luria's life.

In addition, it represents the effort to deal with the difficult problem of respecting Luria's account of his scientific career while providing the world with a fuller account of the connections between his life and work on the one hand, and the social conditions of that life and work in the history of his country. The book will appeal to psychologists, neuropsychologists, and other scientists interested in Luria's life achievements.

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0805854991
• ISBN 13: 9780805854992
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296