[Xmca-l] On the difference between the social and the societal

[Wolff-Michael Roth]

Hi, some of you may be interested in this article where I show that English
translations of Marx are missing some important distinctions, without which
some aspects just do not make any sense.

http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-19.1.2988

This has repercussions on such things as the student learning of
*universal *concepts rather versus individual (local) "meanings". There are
certain nouns that in Marx, Vygotsky, Leont'ev etc. always are modified by
societal but never by social (including personality, consciousness).

German and Russian versions of the same works (Marx, Vygotsky, Leont'ev)
will have a strict equivalence of gesellschaftlich = obshchestvenij (En:
societal) and sozial = social'nij (En: social), whereas English texts only
use the adjective social.

Michael


Wolff-Michael Roth, Lansdowne Professor

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