Re: [xmca] Toolsfor thought (corrigendum)

From: Anton Yasnitsky <the_yasya who-is-at yahoo.com>
Date: Thu Jul 05 2007 - 13:44:02 PDT

Az, lajla tov, Bella :)

--- bella kotik <bella.kotik@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, Anton! certainly 1975- it is too late here in Jerusalem...
>
> On 7/5/07, Anton Yasnitsky <the_yasya@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Great, Bella, this is really interesting: thank you very much!
> >
> > Just a small corrigendum:
> >
> > "in December 1995 J.Bruner visited Luria in Moscow" - you most
> certainly
> > meant "in December 1975", I believe, right?
> >
> >
> > --- bella kotik <bella.kotik@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear David,
> > > I found you thoughts provoked by my paper really interesting and I
> have
> > > to
> > > think more about your ideas.
> > > I do not know where exactly you found that
> > > " *in the sixties, did Luria play around with the idea that
> Chomsky's
> > > "deep
> > > structures" were located in the brain?".*
> > > but I felt immediately that something here sound strange. First
> Luria
> > > always
> > > stressed the general approach to HPF "not localised or located, bur
> > > organized Systemically- Dynamically".
> > > Also my feeling was based on a vivid memory of the following event:
> in
> > > December 1995 J.Bruner visited Luria in Moscow (for a week I was his
> > > secretary, guide and translator and he told me that he came
> especially
> > > and
> > > mainly to see Alexander Romanovich). I had to translate his lecture.
> > > Bruner
> > > started the lecture with the following words: "I want to start with
> an
> > > obituary *(here I hesitated because I did not know this word and
> Luria
> > > decided to translate himself and continued)* this is not an obituary
> for
> > > my
> > > dear friend Noam Chomsky whom I wish long and happy life, but for
> his
> > > dying
> > > theory. And Here at the Moscow University, among Vygotsky's
> followers I
> > > find the best and understanding audience"- from that moment Luria
> > > continued
> > > to interpret the rest of the lecture. Actually it was a parallel
> > > lecture- he
> > > not just translated, but explained every point.
> > > I understand that memoirs and intuition is not enough to defend
> thesis
> > > that
> > > while Luria appreciated Chomsky's role in development of
> linguistics, he
> > > had
> > > a negative attitude towards his attempts to interpret relations
> between
> > > language and cognition. So I found his paper about Chomsky in
> Russian
> > > and
> > > thanks to Internet found that it was published also in English
> > >
> > > LURIA A.R. 1975. Scientific perspectives and philosophical dead ends
> in
> > > modern linguistics. *Cognition *3/4 377.
> > > It is not sixties, but Luria. I will not start citing, please read
> it.
> > >
> > > Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut
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> --
> Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut
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