[Xmca-l] Re: The tradition of BILDUNG

[Andy Blunden]

People use words as they will, but it always seemed to me that 
*transaction* evokes an *external* relation between two subjects in 
which something is *exchanged*, whereas *interaction* evokes some 
modification of the nature of each subject itself rather than the 
addition or subtraction of some contingency.

Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/


mike cole wrote:
> Thanks Larry--- Very interesting connections for sure. When you start to
> parse dialogue as "through the word" it makes a clear connection with words
> as mediators, and the emphasis on trans-action instead of inter-action also
> seems central in this regard.
> mike
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> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Dewey wrote a passage in "Democracy and Education" which stated:
>> "If we are willing to conceive education as the process of *forming*
>> fundamental dispositions, intellectual and emotional, toward nature and
>> fellow-men, philosophy may even be defined AS THE GENERAL THEORY OF
>> EDUCATION" [emphasis in original] (p.338)
>>
>> James Garrison, in the article "Identifying Traces of Hegelian BILDUNG in
>> Dewey's Philosophical System" has this to say concerning the above quote by
>> Dewey:
>>
>> "It is however, easy to interpret this statement if we think of philosophy
>> and education as BILDUNG. Dispositions are habits or attitudes that are
>> formed [BILD] primarily by participating in the norms, beliefs, and values
>> of institutionalized social practices" [page 3]
>>
>> Dewey wrote passionately about *education THROUGH life* in contrast to the
>> value of *education FOR life*
>> The Greek term *dia* in *dialogue* means *through*. Therefore, dialogue is
>> expression THROUGH logos [word].
>>
>> The terms *bild* [form] within *bildung* and the term *dia* [through]
>> within dialogue are intimately related concepts that express a *tradition*
>> [and a genre] which links Hegel's and Vygotsky's and Dewey's projects in a
>> bildung tradition which shares a*resemblance* or *affinity* within the
>> bildung tradition with roots in neo-humanist understandings.
>>
>> Kozulin, I believe is writing within this spirit of *bildung* as
>> incarnating *spirit* THROUGH [dia] life.
>> If we this summer read  chapters four [Tool and Symbol in Human
>> Development] and five  [Thought and Language] of Kozulin's  book.
>>
>> Returning to James Garrison, He wrote,
>>
>> "We could describe this whole process of endless learning and growth as
>> dialectic, a hermeneutic circle, or, my preference, a trans-action. We
>> could also call what I have been describing is a philosophy of BILDUNG. My
>> paper briefly examines some aspects of the architectonic of Dewey's
>> philosophy as constituents of a philosophy of BILDUNG" [page 2]
>>
>> The article can be found at this address:
>>
>>  http://www.philosophy.uncc.edu/mleldrid/SAAP/USC/program.html
>>
>> Larry Purss
>>
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