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  • To date, I have found only one work dedicated to Hegel and Spinoza in Vygotsky. However, both Vygotsky and Spinoza have been transformed in this work into Hegelian analytical philosophers. Consequently, the Soviet context completely disappears from this study (Derry 2013).

    This passage is omitted from the English version of the text. See Russian original (Ilyenkov 1984: 37–38).

    Although in the passage about pointing gesture Vygotsky directly refers to Hegel, the English translation masks his Hegelian terminology: gesture in-itself (zhest v sebe) translated simply as “pointing gesture” and gesture for itself (zhest dlya sebya) translated as “gesture for oneself” (Vygotsky 1997c: 104–05). See Russian edition (Vygotsky 1983: 143–44).

    The expression “difficult unity” is paraphrased in English translation (Vygotsky 1987: 250). See Russian edition (Vygotsky 1982: 306).

    It’s incredible the extent Western psychology has recuperated Vygotsky by maltranslating and selectively teaching his body of work.