Re: [xmca] Pragmatism's Advantage

[Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>]

This being my semester teaching undergraduates, I have not had time for 
following this list.

I did catch this post from Andy, though, which for me is quite exciting 
and provocative.

Andy: > How do you read Hegel? What do you make of Spirit? and so on. My answer is 
> "Activity." Read this way Hegel makes perfect sense.

Me: If the _formation_ of Geist be understood as the the formation of 
semiosically _in*formed_ activity, this (it seems to me) goes a long way 
toward a synlexic framing of not only Marx and Hegel, but also Peirce, 
Mead, LSV, and activity theory. Am I taking this too far?

I am making my first toddler steps toward reading Freire in the Portuguese 
(well, at least "reading" it side-by-side with the English). While I 
intend to be alert to differences among the discourses, what I am seeing 
at the outset is a Freirean discourse clearly informed by Hegel, but also 
strikingly compatible with my own Peircean proclivities.

What do you think?

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Andy Blunden wrote:

> Well, it's tasty enough for me.
> I long ago decided I had to read Marx via Hegel, since Marx was not inclined 
> to spell out philosophical positions.
> How do you read Hegel? What do you make of Spirit? and so on. My answer is 
> "Activity." Read this way Hegel makes perfect sense.
>
> Andy
> (Thanks for my new word for the week, Denise)
>
> Denise Newnham wrote:
> > Sounds like a Dakari :) hope it just as good
> >
> > Denise
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> > Behalf Of Andy Blunden
> > Sent: mercredi 20 octobre 2010 07:22
> > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> > Subject: Re: [xmca] Pragmatism's Advantage
> >
> > Very interesting Larry. For people who don't know Vygotsky &c. I describe 
> > my own philosophy as "Hegelian-Marxism with a pragmatist twist" - the 
> > pragmatist twist being Vygotsky &c. People from "the other two approaches" 
> > I think get some idea of where we're coming from that way.
> >
> > andy
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