From: "bob scheetz" <rscheetz-AT-cboss.com> Subject: Re: PLC: essay selections on topic of "college thinking" Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 12:33:55 -0400 Walter, "It" is CT, the application of the analytic/synthetic tools of reason as the principle form of knowledge/truth. The asssignment was for course readings whereby to elucidate it phil-wise,...and with the sensible requirement for some sex-appeal. I'm not in ed, but don't find self-evident your cart-before-horse (abstraction-before-concretion) is the superior configuration,...nor likely to arouse. Foucault's pt is the the contingent one of the ascendancy of a histroically constructed concrete discourse, CT , ...that the industry began with Luther (clearly modern lit crit is mere secularization of scripture philology/hermeneutics) and has been bludgeoning ever since. thanks, bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Walter Okshevsky <wokshevs-AT-morgan.ucs.mun.ca> To: <phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 7:24 AM Subject: Re: PLC: essay selections on topic of "college thinking" > Bob -- I'm unclear as to how to answer since I don't know what the "it" > refers to. (I'm even less clear after Kevin's post given my understanding > of what Lou is looking for. I would think that before we introduce > students to genealogical analysis and deconstruction, we should apprise > them of the elements of an argument, and then move on to the nature of a > valid and sound argument. This requires instruction and the > transmission of information. Freire understood that; radical > postmodernists never do. Neither pedagogically nor philosophically > do we want to put the cart before the horse.) Cheers, Walter > > Walter C. Okshevsky, PhD > Faculty of Education/Department of Philosophy > Memorial University of Newfoundland > St. John's, NF A1B 3X8 > CANADA > > Phone: 709-737-7613 > Fax: 709-737-2345 > E-mail: wokshevs-AT-morgan.ucs.mun.ca > --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005