My sense is September is a good transition month and the ideal piece could
be useful in addressing unanswered questions from June. I don't think we
need to officiate it any way as a "september discussion paper". The purpose
of the monthly discussion papers was to give members an opportunity to read
and get feedback from each others papers. Leont'ev (book length project) is
the other kind of project we have attempted through out the years with
differing degrees of success.
Which is to say for those interested the piece can be found at
http://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/works/ideal/ideal.htm. For
September, it can be seen as part of the occurrence of xcma members bringing
in resources to ongoing discussion. I also assume we will have opportunities
to come back to this piece once the Leontev reading has begun.
Nate
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul H.Dillon [mailto:illonph@pacbell.net]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 9:56 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: possible September discussion paper?
Not too long ago Bruce suggested that Ilyenkov's "The Concept of the
Ideal" might provide an interesting focus for discussion. I'm wondering if
any others (e.g., Nate, Andy, Jan Derry , others? . . . ) would be
interested in reading and commenting on it -- I think it provides a broad
framework for discussing many central issues in Vygotskyan psych and AT. I
do recognize that for some school is starting with its inevitable beginning
of the semester congestions.
Any interest?
Paul H. Dillon
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