[Xmca-l] Re: The House of Government

[Andy Blunden]

Die = feminine gender, nominative or accusative case

Der = feminine gender, genitive case (or dative)

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Andy Blunden
http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
On 10/06/2019 5:58 pm, David Kellogg wrote:
> (I'm changing the name of this thread, both to reflect the 
> content and because I don't think that Wolff-Michael's 
> comment on the gender of "Frage" in German is picky at all.)
>
> I think that "The House of Government" is not really an 
> instance of ethnography of speech; that is only what in 
> the seventeenth century was called a "conceit"--an 
> instance of wit that involves unlikely juxtaposition, like 
> fleabites and romantic love.
>
> It's really a sustained argument about two propositions 
> that the author finds utterly contradictory: that the 
> future is somehow in some way already programmed and that 
> its realization is still somehow in some way contingent on 
> your participation. Both propositions seem very poorly 
> framed to me, but I do recognize that frame of mind that 
> likes to frame historical problems in these inexplicable, 
> inextricable muddles (for example: my sister has just sent 
> me an urgent link urging me to give up chocolate in order 
> to struggle against child labor in the Ivory Coast--not, 
> mind you, in order to lower the price of chocolate!)
>
> Early on, the author points out how some authors tried 
> their best to write revolutionary epics but could not 
> resist the lure of irony. This was actually two paths, and 
> not one. For the early generation of artists 
> (Mayakovsky, Babel), what was involved was adherance to 
> the revolutionary camp, a sudden consciousness of the 
> religious element of that zeal, and then a very different 
> moment of "campiness", a reflective moment we might almost 
> call revolutionary perezhivanie. As if through a looking 
> glass, the later generation of artists (Shokolov, 
> Ostrovsky) took the opposite path: a certain aloofness 
> from the events of the revolution, a sudden interest in 
> intensive realism, in "permeating art with life", and as a 
> result the kind of cynicism that became very explicit and 
> very profitable (and which is quite typical of Chinese art 
> today).
>
> Something of the sort could also be said about psychology: 
> there was a first generation for whom the revolution was 
> the moment when humans could exercise rational free will 
> over everything from economics to child development, and 
> there was a later generation which proceeded the other way 
> around, working on lie detectors and programmed learning 
> that would allow us to plan the human. Perhaps the real 
> dividing line in generations is not when you are born but 
> rather when and how you died. I think of Vygotsky (and 
> Trotsky) as belonging to the first generation, while Luria 
> (and Leontiev) belonged to the second.
>
> (Wolff-Michael: I am still wondering about "der Frage", 
> but let me guess--In /Endlösung der Judenfrage,/"der" 
> actually doesn't mean the masculine article, but a 
> preposition + article combination like "de la" in French.)
>
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
>
> New Article:
> Han Hee Jeung & David Kellogg (2019): A story without 
> SELF: Vygotsky’s
> pedology, Bruner’s constructivism and Halliday’s 
> construalism in understanding narratives by
> Korean children, Language and Education, DOI: 
> 10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
> To link to this article: 
> https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
>
> Some e-prints available at:
> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KHRxrQ4n45t9N2ZHZhQK/full?target=10.1080/09500782.2019.1582663
>
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