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Re: [xmca] Perezhivanie and Dewey's concept of experience



No Andy, "meaning" is principally a noun of long standing, ossified. There are loads of examples of noun/verb pairs. 
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Subject: Re: [xmca] Perezhivanie and Dewey's concept of experience

Yes, the use of "Thought" in lieu of "Thinking" and "Language" instead 
of "Speaking" is famous and widely recognised, but I have found that 
while noting this, people often stick to "meaning" as the attribute of a 
symbol rather than the gerund of an action verb.

Andy

mike cole wrote:
> Not that the same "verbifying" can be found in "Thought and Language" 
> vs "Thinking and Speech." Kind of like Ivo's Dewey
> and Dilthey......
>
> Makes international discussion about perezhivanie/experience
> an interesting exercise!
>
> mike
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net 
> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>
>     Oh I see!
>     It has always amused me how George Lakoff in his list fundamental
>     human actions/relations which provide the foundation for language,
>     along with travelling, handling objects, containers, and spatial
>     position, he includes guns and war. I have taken this as
>     indicative of the nature of life in the land of the free. So in
>     this case I took "double-barrelled" to mean as in
>     "double-barrelled shot gun"! I had never thought of the cooper's
>     barrel in this context.
>
>     And yes, the facility of English with its "ing" to turn a process
>     verb into a noun can be annoying, if you get my meaning, but the
>     English language is undergoing a movement in the reverse direction
>     in recent decades, with more and more action-nouns (like "impact")
>     being used as verbs. This seems to be a legacy of the culture in
>     which James and Dewey were philosophising.
>
>     Andy
>
>     mike cole wrote:
>
>         A barrel, as used in this context, usually refers to a wooden or
>         metal tube/container that is "solid." It is unchanging over
>         significant periods of a human life span.
>
>         Zaporozhets reminds us, somewhere, that as we are groping the
>         environment with bodies, the environment is groping us. And
>         given the "ing" in groping, its not a noun, its a process
>         occurring over
>
>         time.
>
>         Perhaps that is not useful. I have temporality on the brain,
>         so to speak.
>
>         mike
>
>         On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Andy Blunden
>         <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
>         <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>> wrote:
>
>             I don't understand your allusion to temporality, Mike.
>             Andy
>
>             mike cole wrote:
>
>                 Those are both terrifically useful passages to think with,
>                 Larry and Andy. Thanks. I (so to speak) really
>         resonate to the
>                 notion of rhythmicity and movement in the first
>         passage, and
>                 the "doublebarrel" metaphor in the second. I think for the
>                 latter that
>                 barrel is perhaps unfortunate in so far as "two-way"
>         /temporality/
>                 is backgrounded.
>
>                 thanks!
>                 mike
>
>
>                 On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Andy Blunden
>                 <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
>         <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>
>                 <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
>         <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>>> wrote:
>
>                     What about this one Larry?
>
>                            ‘Experience’ is what James called a
>         double-barreled
>                 word. Like
>                            its congeners, life and history, it
>         includes /what/
>                 men do and
>                            suffer, /what/ they strive for, love,
>         believe and
>                 endure, and
>                            /how/ men act and are acted upon, the ways
>         in which
>                 they do and
>                            suffer, desire and enjoy, see, believe,
>         imagine –
>                 in short,
>                            processes of /experiencing/. ... It is
>                 ‘double-barreled’ in
>                     that
>                            it recognizes in its primary integrity no
>         division
>                 between act
>                            and material, subject and object, but
>         contains them
>                 both in an
>                            unanalyzed totality. ‘Thing’ and ‘thought’, as
>                 James says
>                     in the
>                            same connection, are single-barreled; they
>         refer to
>                 products
>                            discriminated by reflection out of primary
>                 experience (1929
>                     PJD:
>                            256-7).
>
>                     Andy
>
>
>                     Larry Purss wrote:
>
>                         Mike,
>
>                         On page 12 of the  article on Dewey's
>         notionotion of
>                         experience the theme
>                         of experience AS
>                         "life overcomes and transforms factors of
>         opposition to
>                         achieve higher
>                         significance. Harmony and equilibrium are the
>         resullts
>                 not of
>                         mechanical
>                         processes but of RHYTHMIC resolution of
>         tension.  The
>                 rhythmic
>                         ALTERNATION
>                         within the live creature BETWEEN unity and
>         disunity
>                 becomes
>                         CONSCIOUS in
>                         humans.  Emotion signifies BREAKS in
>         experience which
>                 are then
>                         resolved
>                         through reflective action"
>
>                         I thought this may be a way in to *start* the
>                 conversational
>                         dialogue  with
>                         perezhivanie.
>
>                         Larry
>
>                         On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Larry Purss
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>         <mailto:lpscholar2@gmail.com> <mailto:lpscholar2@gmail.com
>         <mailto:lpscholar2@gmail.com>>>>
>
>                 wrote:
>
>                                              Michael, Mike:
>                             One more fragment on the  definition of
>         sentipensante:
>
>                             Sentipensante pedagogy offers a transformative
>                 vision of
>                             education that
>                             emphasizes the harmonic, complementary
>         relationship
>                             between the sentir of
>                             intuition and the pensar of intellect and
>         scholarship;
>                             between teaching and
>                             learning; between formal knowledge and
>         wisdom; and
>                 between
>                             Western and
>                             non-Western ways of knowing.
>
>                             Seems to have some family resemblance to
>         this theme of
>                             experience
>                             Larry
>
>
>
>
>                             On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Larry Purss
>                             <lpscholar2@gmail.com
>         <mailto:lpscholar2@gmail.com>
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>         <mailto:lpscholar2@gmail.com>
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>                 <mailto:lpscholar2@gmail.com
>         <mailto:lpscholar2@gmail.com>>>> wrote:
>
>                                                        Mike,
>                                 Thanks for this.
>                                 Stanford Pub is a wonderful resource.
>          I seem to
>                                 download an author
>                                 approximately once a month. For $10 you
>                 support them
>                                 and get the articles
>                                 sent in a PDF format.
>
>                                 Michael , here is a link [in Spanish]
>         to a youtube
>                                 video of Orlando
>                                 Fals-Borda discussing his understanding of
>                 experience
>                                 from the heart.
>                                 If you have any articles in English
>         which you can
>                                 share, this seems to be
>                                 exploring experience within "felt
>         awareness".
>                                 Seems to be a fascinating expansion of the
>                                 understanding of experience.
>
>                                 Thanks, Michael and Mike
>
>                                 Larry
>                                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbJWqetRuMo
>
>                                 On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:46 PM, mike cole
>                                 <lchcmike@gmail.com
>         <mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com>
>                 <mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com
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>         <mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com>
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>                 <mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com
>         <mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com>>>> wrote:
>
>                                                                
>          Thanks Larry. Viva la differencia. Here is
>                 a quick
>                                     summary of Dewey on
>                                     experience. Note that his ideas
>         are considered
>                                     unusual by the author.
>                                     That
>                                     Stanford pub seems very useful.
>                                     mike
>
>                                          
>          http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dewey-aesthetics/#HavExp
>
>                                     On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:08 PM,
>         Larry Purss
>                                     <lpscholar2@gmail.com
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>         <mailto:lpscholar2@gmail.com>
>
>                 <mailto:lpscholar2@gmail.com
>         <mailto:lpscholar2@gmail.com>>>>
>
>                                     wrote:
>
>                                                                      
>              Michael,
>                                         I also found this site for Orlando
>                 Fals Borda.
>                                        
>         http://comm-org.wisc.edu/si/falsborda.htm
>                                         If it is off topic please ignore.
>                 However, it
>                                         is where my curiosity was
>                                         called or invited.
>
>                                         Larry
>
>                                         On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:40 AM,
>                 Glassman,
>                                         Michael <
>                                                                      
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>
>                                                                      
>                  wrote:
>                                                         Perhaps
>         another avenue to
>                                             explore might be Ortega y
>         Gasset's
>                 ideas on
>                                             experience (which is
>         probably in
>                 some ways
>                                             reflective of Dewey)
>                                                                      
>                      which was
>                                                                      
>                  appropriated by Orlando Fals Borda
>                 in the
>                                             concept of vivencia -
>                                                                      
>                      which is
>                                                                      
>                  very compelling - and became an
>                 important
>                                             part of Fals-Borda's
>                                                                      
>                      conception
>                                                                      
>                  of Participatory Action Research.
>                  This
>                                             might then tie back to the
>                                                                      
>                          earlier
>                                                                      
>                        issue on PAR.
>
>                                             Michael
>                                                  
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>                                             Sent: Monday, February 18,
>         2013
>                 2:28 PM
>                                             To: Beth Ferholt
>                                             Cc: Galina Zuckerman; John
>                 Shotter; Boris
>                                             Meshcheryakov; eXtended
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>                                             Subject: Re: [xmca]
>         Perezhivanie and
>                                             Dewey's concept of experience
>
>                                             Thanks Beth--
>
>                                             I ask, firstly, because there
>                 appear quite
>                                             clear overlaps as you and
>                                                                      
>                          Monica
>                                                                      
>                        have been exploring.
>
>                                             Secondly, we have two
>         submissions
>                 to MCA
>                                             on perezhivanie that are
>                                                                      
>                      very
>                                                                      
>                  focused on Russian authors. Over
>                 and above
>                                             competing
>                                             exegeses of the ideas of
>         Vygotsky,
>                                             Puyzerei, etc., it seems
>         important
>                                                                      
>                          that
>                                                                      
>                        we figure out ways to explore
>                 different
>                                             ways of thinking about the
>                                                                      
>                          general
>                                                                      
>                        category of "experience" that will be
>                                             productive of new
>         empirical and
>                                             theoretical investigation.
>
>                                             mike
>
>                                             On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at
>         9:42 AM, Beth
>                                             Ferholt
>         <bferholt@gmail.com <mailto:bferholt@gmail.com>
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>                 <mailto:bferholt@gmail.com <mailto:bferholt@gmail.com>>>>
>
>                                                                      
>                          wrote:
>                                                                      
>                            Monica and I have just started
>                 using
>                                                 the two concepts in
>                                                                      
>                            conjunction,
>                                                                      
>              as
>                                                                      
>                            we write about the relation
>                 between
>                                                 play and learning and
>         Dewey's
>                                                                      
>                            ideas
>                                                                      
>                  on
>                                                                      
>                                  the relation between art and
>                 science
>                                                 in Art and Experience.
>          I am
>                                                                      
>                            very
>                                                                      
>                      interested in any ref. you
>                 find as I
>                                                 have found none yet. Can I
>                                                                      
>                            ask why
>                                                                      
>                  you
>                                                                      
>                                  ask now? Beth
>
>
>                                                 On Mon, Feb 18, 2013
>         at 6:09
>                 PM, mike
>                                                 cole
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>                 <mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com <mailto:lchcmike@gmail.com>>>>
>
>                                                                      
>                            wrote:
>                                                                      
>                          Has anyone written on uses
>                 of the
>                                                     term perezhivanie
>         as used
>                 in the
>                                                     cultural
>                                                     historical
>         tradition and
>                 Dewey's
>                                                     concept of experience?
>                                                                      
>                                  references?
>                                                                      
>                          mike
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