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For many years, Newman has presented
an annual lecture at Town Hall in Manhattan where he shares
a philosophical perspective on broad topics in popular
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 Review
of Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist
Fred Newman and Lois Holzman.
Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist. New York: Routledge.
240 pp. $18.95 pb.
Vygotsky, the Soviet psychologist from the 1920’s, has
long been regarded as an importantly original thinker, his
major books Thought and Language and Mind in Society making
innovative contributions to the psychology of thinking, language,
and development. Yet, like William James, Vygotsky has suffered
the fate of being more respected than read and even less understood – and
for the similar reason that his perspective is radically critical
of psychology’s traditional assumptions. Lately, as some
in psychology begin to face its foundational crisis, there
has been a new surge of interest in Vygotsky scholarship. Newman
and Holzman cogently depict the methodological and substantive
radicality of Vygotsky’s psychology. Their book presents
it clearly as a transformational discipline, rooted in activity
theory, concerned with ecological validity, and a philosophically
sophisticated epistemology. Marked by clear writing throughout,
this work aims at the key foundational concerns of psychology,
and leaves a pathway for revisioning of those foundations.
from Humanistic Psychologist, 21, Summer 1993.
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