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Re: [xmca] Help? - Microgenesis, Microgenetic, Microgeny?



Mike, I need to chew over your challenges for at least a day before trying to respond. But ... like Marx and Hegel, in discussing and describing the processes he is concerned with, he is finding qualitative changes and distinctions everywhere, isn't he? Just as in German Ideology, for example, Marx finds a dozen "stages" in the development of capitalism over the preceding century or two of European history; and in the Logic, Hegel finds 444 different "stages" in the development of a concept. I think in T&S LSV describes about 10 different grades of concept. I see where your "conclusions" come from, and it is blindingly obvious that they cannot be true, for us, or for Vygotsky. So where are we falling off the rails, so to speak? What are we missing?

Andy

mike cole wrote:
Thanks all for the specification of textual origins, they help a lot.

With respect to bicycle riding which I have been thinking about while being bus driver and busboy for my grandkids: I can see how it runs into trouble because  chimps can acquire the ability to ride a bike and LSV's focus on on higher psychological functions. However, it seems to have a lot of the properties he invokes to hold onto the specifically human/higher psych functions. If it does not count, then I guess that the shift from crawling to walking does not qualify as a microgenetic/developmental change either.
Is that a correct interpretation of LSV? It rules out any developmental change between birth and the acquistion of language doesn't it? If so, the scope of the term, development, with respect to LSV and ontogeny differs from my own views.

Since qualitative change in the organization of sensory-motor behavior appear off the table when discussing HIGHER psych functions, might you turn your scalpels to the acquisition of the ability to read a phonetic alphabet fluently?  How am I going wrong in believing that acquisition of reading is a developmental process in which learning also plays an essential role that shifts in the course off acquisition?

mike

PS- I will only be online occaisionally in the coming week owing to travel and ucsd startup. Thanks again for the helpful input.



On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
Just to pick up on your comment, David:
kellogg wrote:
  (See also Vygotsky's discussion of ways of translating Hegel into Russian on p. 81 of Vol. 4, Andy!)
If the translator of LSVCW had read Lenin's annotations on Hegel this passage might hve been clearer. It is a direct allusion to Lenin on how to translate "aufheben" though it is actually the editor's footnote which is usually quoted! http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/ch01.htm#f20

Andy


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