Re: [xmca] The belated reflections on Anna's and Peter's article

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Martin Packer wrote:
...
> We need to return to Hegel and to Marx, and to the suggestion that
> alienation and false consciousness require a kind of investigation that goes
> beyond participants' practices, ... 

Just a couple of trivial comments, Martin. "False 
consciousness" dates from Lukacs, but really, in my opinion, 
is an invention of anti-communism in the 1970s, falsely 
imputing the concept to Marx. The idea is of course quite 
meaningless in a Hegelian perspective.


As Andy has noted, it's very odd that
> Habermas has never shown interest in Vygotsky, for example.)

And I have made efforts to get senior Frankfurt School 
people to consider Vygotsky, without success. I know that 
Frederick van Gelder has read my critique of Habermas on 
this point, and I have made critiques of Axel Honneth on 
this that I know his close collaborators at least have read. 
Nancy Fraser is the only one I know who rates Vygtosky 
highly, but I don't she's ever actually used him in her work.

Andy


> But as I say, it's just in my imagination!
>
> Martin

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