i just finished reading lewis menand's extremely interesting but i think
uneven work -- the metaphysical club. menand looks at ow holmes, james,
peirce, and dewey within a historical matrix grounded by the civil war on
one end and the cold war on the other.
anmyone else read this?
gary
shank@duq.edu
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Mike Cole wrote:
>
> As it turns out, the next issue of mca will have a paper and two commentaries
> on Vygotsky, Dewey and Pierce.
>
> I think people are talking about different papers. Glassman wrote in Ed Researcher and has three differentia he thinks are important that distinguish
> vygotsky and dewey. Prawat, who has a paper in an earlier MCA wrote a paper
> for Amer Ed Research Jrnl where he uses Dewey's Grandaughter's diaries to
> make the case that the two met.
>
> There is also an interesting piece by Valsiner in Revista de la historia
> Psichologia about pragmatism and vygotsky.
>
> And an article by Koschmann, Kuuti, and Hickman on Heidegger, Dewey, and
> Vygotsky in MCA a while back.
>
> My own approach to these efforts is one of intense interest and scepticism.
> The evidence of Dewey and Vygotsky having actually met I take to be an
> excess of imagination based on inadequate evidence. Different "descriptions"
> of "the" ideas of any of the players differ from one commentator to the
> next, sometimes for the same texts, sometimes through selection of different
> texts for commentary.
>
> EXTREME humility and circumspection in making claims in this very interesting
> and important domain of discussion seems the best route to follow.
>
> mike
>
>
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