Re: Re(2): Individual activity?

From: Bill Barowy (wbarowy@lesley.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 09:09:04 PDT


At 5:38 PM +0200 4/18/01, Victor Kaptelinin wrote:
>
>On the other hand, I think there is a deep, dialectical contradiction
>between individual and collective (both social) activities, which doesn't
>mean they should always be in conflict. Quite the opposite, by the very
>definition of a dialectical contradiction they cannot exist without each
>other. Temporary coordination (or discoordination) and mutual
>transformations of these activities can manifest themselves in various ways
>(in my view, that is what Phillip's great example is demonstrating). It is
>a two-way process in which individual and collective activities "create
>each other" (cf. "The zone of proximal development: where culture and
>cognition create each other" by Cole).
>

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