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Re: [xmca] speaking of rocks and cathedrals



Yep.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lektorsky/subject-object/index.htm

Andy
mike cole wrote:
Great to have Lektorsky brought into this conversation. I wonder, is the
book widely available in English? Did I miss a link somewhere?
mike

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Haydi Zulfei <haydizulfei@rocketmail.com>wrote:

Overcoming the deep-thinking and worry of the problems of the Region ,
Dear Larry , I came to my study to read anew the once-read article sent to
you and , happy to say , I'm exactly at the point you're stationing on page
22 . Yes , I accept the WHOLE of what V. A . Lektorsky says in this article
and His "Subject,Object,Activity" , a book , indeed . Thank you , too , for
your insistence on finding a way for 'dialogues' .  Haydi   ( out Net
problems most of the time ! hope it works ! )




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 From: Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com>
To: Haydi Zulfei <haydizulfei@rocketmail.com>; "eXtended Mind, Culture,
Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Cc: Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>
Sent: Monday, 2 January 2012, 10:02:13
Subject: Re: [xmca] speaking of rocks and cathedrals


Robert, I want to agree with you and acknowledge the poetic way Haydi
expressed these relations.

Haydi, I also am enjoying reading the article on Social Being and the
Human Essence. On page 22 Lektorsky says,

The self is seen as a system of relations, between myself and others.
Outside of this system of relations, I simply cannot exist. I am by my
nature a DIALOGICAL essence.... This approach gives rise to a whole range
of questions which simply did not exist for Descartes or Fichte (they begin
to emerge with Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit).  There is the problem of
my Being-for-others, Being-for-myself, and the Being-of-others-for-me....
     In my view, introspection should not be conceived as a relation of
someone to something purely INSIDE him - or herself, but as a SPECIAL WAY
of relating oneself to others. Introspection is really 'EXTRA-spection'.  A
human being ALWAYS lives on the BOUNDARY between self and other.

Haydi, do you accept the centraity of the QUESTIONS that Lektorsky is
posing as necessary themes to have conversations about???

I'm going back to reading the article.  The method of written
composition [the genre] in how David Bakhurst is presenting these themes is
enjoyable as I love listening in on others conversations.

Haydi thanks for taking the steps into action to respond to my reflections
that come from left-field.

Larry




On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Haydi Zulfei <haydizulfei@rocketmail.com>
wrote:

You are so kind , Robert !!  At times , in my confusion , I don't know how
to :-)  Encouraging !! Thanks a lot !! I did wish you a happy New Year ,
too .    Haydi

________________________________
From: Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>
To: Haydi Zulfei <haydizulfei@rocketmail.com>; "eXtended Mind, Culture,
Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Monday, 2 January 2012, 7:47:41

Subject: Re: [xmca] speaking of rocks and cathedrals


Wow Havdi!
Have you written about this in greater detail anywhere?
If so can you direct me? If not, you need to.
Happy New Year!
Robert Lake


On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Haydi Zulfei <haydizulfei@rocketmail.com>
wrote:
True Andy !
I didn't continue : " The moment the floundering footstep of the IDEAL
touches the firm GROUND of the 'world of reality' , as to its nature , it
jumps once again in a space of a blink , yearning to unite anew with her
beloved consort fere , the ACTION , towards a re-start of another pulse of
'subjectivity' "

________________________________
From: Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Sunday, 1 January 2012, 17:58:41
Subject: Re: [xmca] speaking of rocks and cathedrals


Well, it becomes an ideal I guess.

And on that I beg to differ with just one of Haydi's dot points.

Haydi said: "Ideal , when reified, is no longer ideal."

I would have thought that when an ideal is reified, then it attains the
most stable of all possible forms of reification. That pile of rocks, if
exumed 2000 years later, may still exhibit the properties of a cathedral if
the thought was put into action by Saint Exupery.
For 2012, I guess I look forward to the deepening economic decline of
Europe and the US putting pressure on China to stimulate its domestic
market, and thereby lend more power to the rising tide of resistance among
ordinary people demanding the rule of law in their country. And I would
dearly like to see Syria join Libya and build something worthwhile from the
ashes of their previous efforts to shake off imperialist domination. And it
would be good to see Iran join the Arab Spring too. And keep the US the
hell out of intervening in that country.
Andy

mike cole wrote:

I want to join the voices for wishing all "present" the best of
fortune in
the new year. We now reach from Invertebrates to God in our modest
explorations of the processes of human development. :)) The following thought came to me in thinking about what ensues if one accepts the invitation to imagine what will happen in the next year -- what you hope for, what you fear,
what
you could not expect and so
can't think about. It is from St. Exupery. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man
contemplates
it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery<
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/antoinedes161736.html>
Its an interesting thought, but "negative" in the sense that it tells
us
what a rock ceases to be but does not
specify what it has become "the moment it a single man contemplates
it."
It seems apt to the discussion.
An awful lot takes place in that moment! Happy New Year, mike
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