Re: [xmca] Feurbach on ice

From: Mike Cole (lchcmike@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 20:02:41 PST


Sounds right to me!
mike

On 2/12/07, Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> wrote:
>
>
> "The human being is in the most literal sense a 'zoon politigon,' not
> merely
> a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in
> the
> midst of society. Production by an isolated individual outside society...
> is
> as much an absurdity as is the development of language without individuals
> living together and talking to each other" (Marx, Grundrisse, p. 83 [I
> think])
>
>
> On 2/12/07 5:27 PM, "Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Leif-- You are precisely correct. Last page of T&L, p. 285 in the 1987
> > edition
> >
> > The word is what, in Feurbach's words-- is absolutely impossible for one
> > person but possible for two. The word
> > is the most direct manifestation of human consciousness.
> >
> > Consciousness is reflected in the word like the sun is reflected in a
> > droplet of water. The word is a microcosm of
> > consiousness, related to conscious like a living cell is related to an
> > organism, like an atom is related to the cosmos.
> > The meaninful word is a microcosm of human consciousness.
> >
> > I was reading this with my students two weeks ago but could not recover
> the
> > context, until now. thanks to your
> > (meaningful) words.
> >
> > mike
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