the origins of cultural historical activity theory talk by andy blunden, april 2010
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The Origins ofCultural Historical
Activity Theory
Talk by Andy Blunden, April 2010
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Descartes and Consciousness
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
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“I think, therefore I am!”
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Mind/matter: Ontological distinction
Subject/Object:Epistemological relation
Descartes
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Herder and CultureThe Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment
Johann Gottfried Herder
(1744-1803)
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God/Nature is Active
Everyone has their Schwerpunkt !
Herder
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Goetheand Romantic Science
Gestalt
(1749-1832)
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UrphänomenGoethe
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Hegel(1770-1831)
Thought-object / Artefact
Subject-Object
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• Way of thinking
• Way of Life
• Constellation of artefacts
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
Formation of Consciousness
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Concept
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““I/Me dialecticI/Me dialectic”
Hegel’s Psychology
Hegel’s Idealism
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Readings
The full text of this talk can be found at http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/origins-chat.htm
Recommended readings are at:• Ilyenkov, E., (2009) “Dialectical Logic,” The Ideal in
Human Activity, Erythrós Press and• Hegel (2009), “Hegel’s Logic” with a Foreword by Andy
Blunden, Erythrós Press.Selections from Classical German Philosophy are at
http://www.marxists.org/subject/philosophy/german.htmQuestions and discussion with the author are welcome with
Andy Blunden: [email protected]
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Marx and Activity
Part Two of talk by Andy Blunden on the Origins of Cultural Historical Activity Theory, April 2010
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Marx’s Critique of Hegel
(1818-1883)
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Feuerbach and Hegel
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Theses on Feuerbach
Herder – Fichte - Hess
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“Practical-critical Activity”Theses on Feuerbach
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The German Ideology
• The Real Individuals
• Their Activity, and
• the Material Conditions
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The Method of Political Economy
“The concrete is the concentration of many determinations ...It appears in the process of thinking, therefore, as a process of concentration, as a result, not as a point of departure, even though it is the point of departure in reality.”
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Preface to Capital
“In bourgeois society, the commodity-form of the product of labour — or value-form of the commodity — is the economic cell-form.”
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The Commodity
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18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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Men make their own history, but under circumstances given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. ... they anxiously conjure up spirits of the past, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes.
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In Conclusion
http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Paper/Genealogy-CHAT.htm
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Readings
• The full text of this talk can be found at http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/origins-chat.htm#marx
• The recommended readings from Marx are at http://marx.org/archive/marx/works/sw/course/xmca.pdf
• Questions and discussion with the author are welcome with Andy Blunden: [email protected]
• Further reading on these ideas are found in “An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity,” by Andy Blunden