Re: Quasi-historical discourse

From: Paul H.Dillon (illonph@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Feb 10 2002 - 18:32:49 PST


Joseph,

You are so right about the difference between the problems that we are
trying to solve and those that Piaget and Vygotsky were braining. Vygtosky,
for example, was trying to create the psychological component of a unified
dialectical materialist social theory.

Paul H. Dillon

----- Original Message -----
From: Glick, Joseph <JGlick@gc.cuny.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 4:40 PM
Subject: Quasi-historical discourse

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> Piaget died more than 20 years ago. Vygotsky died 40 + years before
> Piaget's death and we are now in a new millenium.
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> These folks have entered into our common cultural heritage. They belong
> there, as tools for the bricoleurs that we are, to mobilize and use
> given a problem at hand. I think that the time is long past for likening
> or distinguishing them. They have become part of our cultural tool kit
> and they sit side by side as resources - not lively theoretical
> positions to be attacked or defended. They are resources for current
> discourses and shouldn't be mistaken for being current discourses.
>
> If we want to find out what these guys were really about we should look
> to the kinds of theoretical problems that they were trying to solve -
> which were quite different and which are, I think, quite different from
> the kinds of problems that we are trying to solve.
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