[Xmca-l] Re: Science and Passion

[Andy Blunden]

Thanks for the interest, David, but my paper said absolutely 
nothing about emotion, which is of course nothing to do with 
the strange idea of "excluding" emotion.
The motivation of scientific activity self-evidently entails 
emotion so long as we are human.

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On 1/10/2020 9:45 am, David Kellogg wrote:
> Andy has written a very interesting response paper to Anna 
> Stetsenko's recent article "Hope, political imagination, 
> and agency in Marxism and beyond" in which he argues that 
> Marx differentiated the  "flagrantly partisan" stance of 
> his youth into a dispassionate science and a committed 
> technology. Anna is arguing for more or less the opposite: 
> as academics we need to abandon the idea that that emotion 
> is separable from science, along with the notion that 
> theory is separable from applicability.
>
> Here in Korea it is the annual harvest festival, and our 
> little group (now not so little) is using the 
> stay-at-home-this-holiday order to try to turn Vygotsky's 
> "Teaching About the Emotions" into a kind of comic book. 
> The idea is to use Dutch paintings from the Golden Age 
> with thought balloons and speech bubbles to illustrate 
> Vygotsky's text, to situate it into a popular genre here 
> in Korea (the "Why?" science comic books) and above all to 
> try to complement the argument Vygotsky is making about 
> the role of emotion in the formation of interests, and 
> hence concepts, with some of the passion and quietude of 
> Rembrandt and Vermeer.
>
> So Lange argues that the whole of enculturation, if not 
> education, nothing but toilet training: "The rod trains a 
> child not to cry from disappointment as a result of 
> emotional vasomotor spasm in the same way it trains him 
> not to wet himself as a result of involuntary reflex 
> functions."  (Vol 6, 1999: 152, though the translation is 
> somewhat off). Lange then argues that "history" has 
> condemned "wild peoples" to extinction because of their 
> inability to emotionally toilet-train themselves. Vygotsky 
> manages to suppress his own rage; he deadpans that the 
> racist implications of this view are shared not by Lange's 
> physiologist co-thinkers but rather by their arch-enemy 
> Kant and the cognitivist accounts of emotion. It's not 
> just that philosophy makes for strange bedfellows, it's 
> also the case that its repudiation breaks up once stable 
> marriage vows. Without emotions, humans never would bother 
> with science. But without the rod of science, the passions 
> lead us straight back into racist bedwetting.
>
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
>
> New article in WORD, journal of the International 
> Linguistic Association (Volume 66, 2020 - Issue 3)
> The problem of articulate animals in Korean child 
> conversation: A Hallidayan analysis, a Vygotskyan 
> interpretation, and a Hasanian critique
> David Kellogg & Seon-mi Song
> Pages 149-165 | Published online: 18 Sep 2020
>
> Some free e-prints available at:
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