Thinking and Speech

The book "Thinking and Speech", who first saw the light in 1934, is considered one of the fundamental work in modern psychological science, a guideline for any thought reader. Exploring the reasons for the crisis in psychology, which arose at the beginning of the last century, L.S.vugotsky found that the existing concepts of the development of the psyche are built on an erroneous, in his opinion, the approach that he called naturalistic, trying to build in one row psychological development of the animal and the development of the child . Such a point of view, Vygotsky opposed its culturally - the historical concept of the development of the psyche. The main provisions of this theory were reflected in the book "thinking and speech" and kept their importance for many generations of scientists - both foreign and domestic.
This edition, which goes to the 120th anniversary of L.S.S. Vigotsky and opening a series "Anthology of world pedagogy", offers readers the text of the book in the form in which he was published for the first time, and is accompanied by a preface L.F.Obukhova, One of the leading researchers of the scientific heritage of L.S.Vigotsky