David H Kirshner
08/06/98 03:25 PM
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu@internet
cc: (bcc: David H Kirshner/dkirsh/LSU)
Subject: Re: Wetsch: Mind as Action
Before we get into high gear on this, I haven't yet received my
copy from the publisher. It turns out they're out of print at the moment,
and it will take a few weeks for a new run.
jkonopak who-is-at ou.edu on 08/05/98 07:06:56 PM
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu@internet
cc: (bcc: David H Kirshner/dkirsh/LSU)
Subject: Re: Wetsch: Mind as Action
At 12:51 AM 8/5/98 -0400,
John St. Julien wrote:
>If folks decide to read _Mind as Action_ by Wertsch collectively please
>count me in. I've long wanted to explore this. Let me know and I'll zip
>over to Amazon.com. (On list or off list--if our interest turns out to
>relatively rare.)
>
Me, too. But before starting, mebbe: Anybody wanna get the ball rolling
with a synopsis of the relevant ideas of the least well-known (today, I
think, anyway; and also least widely--again, now--read, too?) member of the
triad--a really interesting troika, nyet?--Kenneth Burke? Vygotsky and
Bakhtin are the others? Wertsch uses (parts of) Burke's communicative
pentad as an heuristical device for understanding--may we say "unpacking"
still?--intermediations of mind and action in culture.
I read A Grammar of Motives as an undergrad, and I have occasionally
referred to "The philosophy of literary form" since then, for its
discussions of "meaning" as well as for (several, really) nuanced
presentations of the qualitiative/quantative distinction.
Do others have a Burkean background, who can evaluate how (well?) Wertsch
appropriates Burke?
curiously
konopak
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