Just spent the afternoon reading and had a few random thoughts:
1. A THOUGHT ON GOING TO THE SOURCE
The origin or primary source of something is very important. Hence, knowing the arts (what guides one’s thinking) is just as important than trying to learn all the methodologies that one can choose from to understand a specific [...]
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Notes to Self
Saturday, 20 December 2008
Problem of Theory & Practice in Gramsci & Dewey
Friday, 21 March 2008
I’ve been reading a bit more Antonio Gramsci (Marxist Theorist) and John Dewey’s Art as Experience. Although the two have two very different notions of reality, they seem to have the same macro-problem.
PROBLEM: Separation of Thought and Action.
FOR GRAMSCI:
Thought is the theory of contradictions in a society and action is the people’s actual consciousness. Because [...]