Re: [xmca] The "Inner Form" of the Word

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the heads up on the book and the need to figure out where in the
world your review(s) is/are.

Russian reviewer self nominators?
mike

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:

> I would if I had the time now, but I need to get a book written, and it's
> hard to find time to work on that.
>
> Besides, I've done a review of 3 other books that was accepted and has been
> "in the cue" now for (I'm guessing) something like four years now (you got
> it from me back then, Mike.) I can't afford doing that again.
>
> Actually, for this book, I think MCA needs someone who knows the Russians
> better than I do.
>
>
> On Sat, 28 May 2011, mike cole wrote:
>
>  Seems like you should review it for MCA, Tony!
>> mike
>>
>> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
>>
>>  For whatever it might be worth to anybody by way of a testimonial:
>>>
>>> After reading (& marking up) the first two chapters, I bought a second
>>> copy
>>> that I can keep clean for sharing pages, passages, etc.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 28 May 2011, mike cole wrote:
>>>
>>>  Tony-- I have written to David to see if he has any texts, short of
>>>
>>>> everyone
>>>> running out and buying his book (which I am sure he would not object
>>>> to!),
>>>> that could guide our
>>>> discussion. His article in the Vygotsky companion ends with "in place of
>>>> a
>>>> conclusion" and a warning not to cleanse Vygotsky of "rationalistic
>>>> tendencies."
>>>>
>>>> Part of my unease in this discussion has been the binary nature of the
>>>> terms
>>>> used, even as those using them believe in a basically trinary
>>>> organization
>>>> of humaness.
>>>>
>>>> mike
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks, Martin
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  From a Peircean perspective, there seems to be a falsely exhaustive
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>  dichotomy here between the ["laws of reason"]-logical and the
>>>>>>
>>>>> psycho-logical. The semio-logical is not reducible to either of those.
>>>>>
>>>>> Again, I think that Bakhurst's _The Formation of Reason_ is very much
>>>>> on
>>>>> point here. While he's not using Peirce, he is using Vygotsky et al.
>>>>> along
>>>>> with the Bildung tradition, which is all about forming within culture,
>>>>> but
>>>>> not [I would argue] as a matter of something merely psycho-logical.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
> Tony Whitson
> UD School of Education
> NEWARK  DE  19716
>
> twhitson@udel.edu
> _______________________________
>
> "those who fail to reread
>  are obliged to read the same story everywhere"
>                  -- Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970)
>
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