[Xmca-l] Re: Higher Mental Functions

[Andy Blunden]

Thanks David. That sounds like it. I knew I could rely on you. :)
'Twas a popular idea. Hegel said "speech is the tool of reason".
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/se/ch01.htm
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
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David Kellogg wrote:
> Andy:
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> Take a look at the end of Chapter Two, the Research Method Chapter,
> pp. 60-62 in the English Collected Works. It's not that he objects to
> the term "artifacts"; he doesn't use the term. It's that he objects to
> the analogy between them being reduced to an identity, and on this
> basis does not agree that "language is a tool of thinking" or that
> language is an 'auxiliary device of memory". He also objects to
> Dewey's phrase that language is a "tool of tools", and points out that
> it is a bad paraphrase of Aristotle. He says that the relationship
> between tools and signs is that they both belong to a logical
> category, mediating activity, but their precise structural, functional
> and genetic relationship has to be worked out.
>
> David Kellogg
> Hankuk Univeristy of Foreign Studies.
>
> On 18 November 2014 19:32, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
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>> For those of you who rely on marxists.org for their Vygotsky reading, I have
>> scanned a couple more chapters from Volume 4 of the LSVCW today:
>> http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1931/research-method.htm
>> http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1931/analysis-higher-mental-functions.htm
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>> I was looking for material where Vygotsky discusses the relation between
>> sign-mediation and tool-mediation (and other types of mediation!) and these
>> chapters seemed to be necessary. I could not find the passage where he
>> expresses some antipathy to calling both signs and tools "artefacts". I was
>> sure I read this somewhere. Can anyone recall where that could have been?
>>
>> Andy
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