Re: [xmca] The "Inner Form" of the Word

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Seems like you should review it for MCA, Tony!
mike

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:

> For whatever it might be worth to anybody by way of a testimonial:
>
> After reading (& marking up) the first two chapters, I bought a second copy
> that I can keep clean for sharing pages, passages, etc.
>
> On Sat, 28 May 2011, mike cole wrote:
>
>  Tony-- I have written to David to see if he has any texts, short of
>> everyone
>> running out and buying his book (which I am sure he would not object to!),
>> that could guide our
>> discussion. His article in the Vygotsky companion ends with "in place of a
>> conclusion" and a warning not to cleanse Vygotsky of "rationalistic
>> tendencies."
>>
>> Part of my unease in this discussion has been the binary nature of the
>> terms
>> used, even as those using them believe in a basically trinary organization
>> of humaness.
>>
>> mike
>>
>> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
>>
>>  Thanks, Martin
>>>
>>>  From a Peircean perspective, there seems to be a falsely exhaustive
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  dichotomy here between the ["laws of reason"]-logical and the
>>> psycho-logical. The semio-logical is not reducible to either of those.
>>>
>>> Again, I think that Bakhurst's _The Formation of Reason_ is very much on
>>> point here. While he's not using Peirce, he is using Vygotsky et al.
>>> along
>>> with the Bildung tradition, which is all about forming within culture,
>>> but
>>> not [I would argue] as a matter of something merely psycho-logical.
>>>
>>>
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