Lois Holzman |

30 Mar Snapshots of a Developmental History

Posted at 15:09h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Vygotsky, What's New 0 Comments

If you want to see more photos of Lev Vygotsky, you'll find maybe a dozen on line (you can do a Google search). Since I had a relationship with his daughter Gita, who has spoken personally about her father and his work, I can share some photos of her—from my...

30 Jan More on Murray, Fred and Me

Posted at 21:53h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, What's New 6 Comments

I have very few photos of my life before age 20 and lots and lots since then. I found one of Murray and another of Murray and me. And here's one of Fred and one of Fred and me. [caption id="attachment_2053" align="alignright" width="208"] Fred and me, circa 1990[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2051" align="alignleft" width="300"]...

07 Jan More on Knowledge and Freedom—Thanks to Readers

Posted at 16:57h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog 3 Comments

Thanks to all who’ve commented so far on the Introduction and taken the polls. Your enthusiasm means so much! Additionally, it’s helpful to learn that you would share the book with others, what parts resonate strongly, and where I’ve been less than clear. I thank two readers in particular (one who...

09 Dec Where does the title, The Overweight Brain, come from?

Posted at 21:05h in Overweight Brain Mini Blog, Theatre, What's New 3 Comments

December 9, 2013 The phrase, the overweight brain, comes from Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller (1929-2005), the East German dramatist. Hamletmachine is a postmodern distillation and reconfiguration of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In the play, Müller's Hamlet embodies the dead end of Western intellectual history—describing himself, he says, “Like a hunchback I drag my overweight brain.” Fred Newman loved Müller’s...