RE: NY Times Story

From: Ana Marjanovic-Shane (anamshane@speakeasy.net)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 09:48:32 PDT


Registration to NYT is, I believe, free. I think you have to pay only if you
wish to get to their archives.
Ana

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-----Original Message-----
From: N [mailto:vygotsky@charter.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 12:02 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: NY Times Story

sound interesting?

Too bad NYT requires registration.

Mike Cole wrote:

>There is an interesting NY Times Story on Area Studies which includes the
>following reformulation of Luria's conception of Romantic Science, taken,
>so to speak, to a new scale:
>
> Area scholars have begun to catch on that globalization plays out
differently depending on where you are, said Mr. Calhoun said. "You can't
generalize from the local, but you can't generalize without the local."
>
>The entire story can be read at
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/07/arts/07AREA.html
>
>Happy New Year Ana, Anna et al.
>mike
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of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach of the
phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the naturalists.
To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to go outside the
limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of the mind, but into
the objective forms of social life; it is necessary to seek the sources of
human consciousness and freedom in the social history of humanity. To find
the soul it is necessary to lose it.
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