Re: ascending to the concrete
Windward, Rolfe (windward who-is-at lindsey.edu)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:55:44 -0600
It may not be what Marxians mean or meant but I've always found it
useful, in terms of AT systems, to think of movement to the concrete not
as a level (higher or lower) but as a Piercean developmental process: a
progression from the less formed (but more creative perhaps) to the
established. 'Things as they are' being the available resources
(mediating tools) that regulate the process when it begins but which
themselves may be transformed as the activity proceeds and new
relationships develop.
For what it's worth.
Rolfe Windward
Dept. of Education, Lindsey Wilson College
windward who-is-at lindsey.edu
"We know more than we can say" -M. Polanyi