A Dream of Reason III. Part 3 John’s Vision: A Sociological-Psychological Fiction and The Author Descending

John’s Vision: A Sociological-Psychological Fiction Dream (1974) (Transcript and continuation of A Dream of Reason Bellow) (The above Video is also part of a series, Exploring Questioning) I went to a tough junior high school…. One recess in front of an old red tenement a big guy came at me with a knife. Said, “Give […]

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A Dream of Reason III. Part 4- Bathysphere and Fertile Open Space

Bathysphere (1979) A bathysphere descends. – Not steel and glass. Sensitive and sapient…. A sapient bathysphere is shaped by and shapes that through which it falls and that which it contains. The sociological-psychological bathysphere descends through the rhythms and currents of the ocean of voices. A bathysphere descends to the depth of bathysphere construction…descent into […]

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A Dream of Reason IV: Part 1 Entering through “Personal-Interpersonal Dynamics”

IV: Entering through “Personal-Interpersonal Dynamics”   On the Anatomy of Personal-Interpersonal Dynamics (2005) 1.Opening 1.1 Until the final essay this section remains within the gravity of “social/behavioral science.” Yet it is in motion towards an autonomous humanistic dialogical sociology-psychology. Most essays are relatively early. – Now they appear within the dialogical context they opened. Their author […]

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A Dream of Reason IV. Part 2 Introduction to the Problem/Solution Orientation…

Introduction to the Problem/Solution Orientation as a Foundational Sociological-Psychological Schema (1965) 1.Introduction (2006)        Our first sociological-psychological schema, initiated in 1962, explores generically human determinate processing potentialities and species realms through the problem/solution connection. Internal problems[1] include: Theoretical integration of timeless “if then” connection and “historical becoming”, Theoretical integration of generically human, type specific, and […]

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A Dream of Reason- IV. Part 3 …A Working Paper in the Sociology-Psychology…and Apendixes

John Constable’s Orientational Reconstruction of the Art of Landscape Painting: A Working Paper in the Sociology-Psychology of Disciplinary Positions (1965) 1. Opening             In this essay we explore “framework” and “orientational reconstruction” through John Constable’s contribution to the art of landscape painting[1]. 2.Generative problematic 2.1             Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 – 1792), first president of […]

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A Dream of Reason- IV- Part 4 On Social Structural Positions…

On Social Structural Positions: Variations On a Theme by Karl Mannheim (1995)  1.Prologue             This section is incomplete…. A crucial unresolved problem is to construct explicit typologies of   emergent determinate processing potentialities and orders of life. – Other relevant unresolved issues include the bourgeois position, the nature and limitations of “craft rationality,” and the special […]

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