Anthology on the History of Psychology by Gustav Shpet: In Search of Historical Continuity. Shpet, Gustav G., Materials for the Anthology: Preface.

In April 2024, 145 years have passed since the birth of the prominent Russian philosopher and psychologist Gustav Gustavovich Shpet. His conceptual deve­lopments in the philosophy of science, aimed at understanding the historical continuity of knowledge, are becoming especially relevant today in the con­text of the cultural-historical epistemology being developed in the works of B.I. Pruzhinin and T.G. Shchedrina. The greatest interest for contemporary re­searchers lies in the “archive of the epoch” of G.G. Shpet, which, in addition to his own manuscripts and drafts, also contains materials from his relatives, friends, colleagues, and students. To such kind of documents of the epoch one can attribute the preparatory materials for the “Anthology on the History of Psy­chology”, which Shpet began working on in 1917. Unfortunately, this fundamen­tal collective work (in addition to Shpet, many well-known Russian translators participated in it, including I.B. Rumer, N.V. Samsonov, S.I. Radzig, P.P. Blon­sky, and others) was never published. Today, we can return to history and con­tinue the work of Russian philosophers and scholars who attempted to compre­hend the path of the humanities – psychology – and its terminological thesaurus in its historical development. Below are published the preparatory materials for the anthology from the archive of G.G. Shpet: the preface, in which he justifies the relevance of a historical approach to contemporary psychological research, a promotional announcement briefly describing the contents of the two planned volumes, and a reconstruction of the contents of the first part of the first volume, the materials for which were already prepared for publication.