Thanks for the clarification, Andy. Solid answer and great leads. Good stuff.
- Steve
At 11:11 PM 10/25/03 +1000, Andy wrote:
>The way I see it, remembering all the time that internalisation is a
>creative process of appropriation, which never *simply* copies or
>reproduces the external, all our concepts are internalisations *of* social
>relations. I think Leontyev did a great job of explaining this idea, for
>me, in his Activity, Consciousness, and Personality
>http://www.marxists.org/archive/leontev/works/1978/index.htm. Activity,
>tools, language, social institutions, scientific works, laws, art, etc.,
>etc., mediate between individual forms of consciousness and social
>formations. There are millions upon millions of examples so it's hardly
>worth starting. Hegel's Doctrine of the Notion shows in detail how social
>formations mediate the relations between individual consciousness and
>universal consciousness, albeit in an almost incomprehensible form. "All
>mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in
>human practice and in the comprehension of this practice"
>
>
>Andy
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