A. R. Luria (1902--1977)
Last update: 21 Apr 2025 21:17First version: 24 March 2025
Most of what I'd ordinarily have to say here is incorporated in a blog post. (It astonishes me that I didn't make a notebook for Luria in the 1990s...)
- Recommended, primary (with links to my comments elsewhere):
- A. R. Luria
- Cognitive Development: Its Social and Cultural Foundations
- The Making of Mind: A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology [Autobiography, which maintains a prudent silence on politics. Apparently online, though I haven't checked the completeness or accuracy of the transcription.]
- Man with a Shattered World ["autoneurography" of a Soviet soldier who suffered severe brain damage during the Great Patriotic War, with commentary and medical explanations by Luria]
- The Working Brain: An Introduction to Neuropsychology
- Recommended, secondary:
- Michael and Sheila Cole, "Introduction" to The Making of Mind
- David Joravsky, "A Great Soviet Psychologist", New York Review of Books 16 May 1974 [Review of Luria's works then available in English]
- To read, primary:
- Luria
- Luria Archive at marxists.org
- The Nature of Human Conflicts, or Emotion, Conflict and Will: An Objective Study of Disorganization and Control of Human Behavior
- Mind of a Mnemonist ("neurography" of a circus performer)
- To read, secondary:
- Gavriela Eilam, "The Philosophical Foundations of Aleksandr R. Luria's Neuropsychology", Science in Context 16 (2004): 551--577
- Elkhonon Goldberg (ed.), Contemporary Neuropsychology and the Legacy of Luria
- Marianne Kamp, Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan [I'd be surprised if this directly mentioned Luria's expedition to Uzbekistan, but it's very much the social background for what he encountered there...]
