I think that Andy is quite right here. Vygotsky was, it seems to me, trying to avoid the error of considering the social situation in entirely objective terms, and although it would seem that it must be the case that the situation should then be considered as subjective, he was keen to avoid that approach too. I am attaching a paper I finished recently on this topic. I'm not very happy with it, so I would welcome any recommendations for its improvement. Martin
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On Sep 19, 2010, at 11:25 PM, Andy Blunden wrote: > I think the way Vygotsky makes and illustrates his point is open to misinterpretation, and in my opinion, Lydia Bozhovich misinterprets it actually! > In relation to what you say, I think it would be a mistake to conclude from Vygotsky's refusal to theorise a situation as objective, that we ought to theorize the subjective as well. The difficult point he is trying to make is that the situation is subjective/objective and there is no sense in talk of objective on one hand and subjective on the other. This is a problem of philosophy which goes back, in my view, to Fichte, who introduced the notion of activity specifically to overcome this problem.
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