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You can download the full text here: http://archive.org/download/natureofhumancon032984mbp/natureofhumancon032984mbp.pdf Best, Huw On 15 July 2013 10:37, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > With the upcoming xmca discussion of Part 2 of the Special Issue on the > emotions, people might like to look at Luria's book on his approach to the > investigation of affect. > > http://www.marxists.org/**archive/luria/works/1932/** > nature-conflicts/luria-**conflicts.pdf<http://www.marxists.org/archive/luria/works/1932/nature-conflicts/luria-conflicts.pdf> > > We just have the Preface and Introduction at the moment, but the > methodological discussion here is intriguing, especially his insistence > that it is only *psychological* investigation, based on detailed > observation of voluntary actions and consideration of the entire system of > the psychological and motor functions, and not *physiological* > investigation (as in modern "neuroscience:) which can shed any light on > problems of how human actvity can be "disorganised" - and in 1932, this > from the guy who is virtually the founder of modern neuroscience. > > Andy > -- > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------ > *Andy Blunden* > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ > Book: http://www.brill.nl/concepts > http://marxists.academia.edu/**AndyBlunden<http://marxists.academia.edu/AndyBlunden> > > >