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.

References

^ 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.
^ Blunden, Andy. "Information about Andy Blunden". Marxists Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
^ Blunden, Andy. "Marx Myths & Legends". Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
^ "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

[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.

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