[Xmca-l] Re: Synoptic Gospel

[David Kellogg]

Oh, I think "category error" is another name for Hallidayan
complementarity, Mike.

Let me put it another way. Another name for the synoptic understanding of a
crisis is "contradiction". Or, if you prefer, another name for the dynamic
understanding of contradiction is "crisis".

(Is that two other ways, or is a pair of ways?)

David Kellogg
Sangmyung University

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On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 12:28 PM mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> So time needs to be part of a unity for studying cultural/historical
> processes, David?
> Or am I making a category error?
>
> mike
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:26 PM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have been reading Andy's article for the CHARR group, but I have also
>> been working on a new volume of the pedology, and, finally, retranslating
>> Vygotsky's unfinished "Teaching on the Emotions". What all these texts have
>> in common is that they require you to think about units of analysis as
>> simultaneously timeless and time-embedded: on the one hand, the life of
>> Christ ordered by chronologic time and on the other, the "synoptic" Gospels
>> which order the various events of the life of Christ in many different ways
>> according to their anagogic value.
>>
>> These two complementary perspectives, the chronological and the synoptic,
>> are ever present in Halliday: an expression like "the living of life" is
>> not redundant because the first nominal is  implicitly chronological
>> process and the second implicitly synoptic product. They are less obviously
>> marked in Vygotsky, but they are there. In one chapter he excoriates
>> Busemann for mixing up the Crisis at Three with the Crisis at Seven, but in
>> the next chapter he offers three possible "units" of analysis. They are the
>> same ones Andy cites:
>>
>>
>> a. word value in in the explanation of the relation between thinking and
>> speech,
>>
>>
>> b. age periods in the study of psycho-physiological development, and
>> finally,
>>
>>
>> c.* perezhivanie*, or переживание,  in the study of the child’s
>> relationship with the environment.
>>
>>
>> I think you can see that ALL of these not only CAN but MUST be viewed
>> chronologically, else we cannot say how word value develops, how an age
>> period progresses (let alone how one differs from another) or how the
>> personality goes from functioning to dysfunctional to functioning on some
>> higher level. But at the same time, you can also see how it's teleological
>> to talk about the word value, or the age period, or the perezhivanie in the
>> moment before the word value, age period, or perezhivanie has even started
>> to exist. So the process itself is always chronological, but the process of
>> analysis itself has to be synoptic.
>>
>>
>> Mozart, they say, composed synoptically: with a single piece of music in
>> his head that he could scroll over, back and forth; Beethoven, on the other
>> hand, is all about getting from commencement to cataclysm, in more or less
>> that order.  When I was at art school, we would hire the same model for
>> painting and for sculpture. We painters would do the model as a text: every
>> narrative painting and even every portrait has to have a beginning, a
>> middle, and an endpoint and the painter's eye directs the brush to direct
>> the viewer's eye to follow it. But the sculptors,infuriatingly,had no
>> starting point, no middle point, and no endpoint at all: it was just a
>> matter of more or less finishing at every point. The models would complain
>> that dozed off when the painters sat there reading them over, but they
>> would complain that they got dizzy when the sculptors were circumambulating
>> the studio all the time.
>>
>>
>> David Kellogg
>>
>> Sangmyung University
>>
>> New Article: Ruqaiya Hasan, in memoriam: A manual and a manifesto.
>> Outlines, Spring 2020
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>> One: Foundations of Pedology*"
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