A Room of our Own (1984) 1 The explicitly dialogical orientation opens when sociology-psychology breaks subordination to science, seeks self-knowledge and recognizes itself as an autonomous discipline and as a distinct modality of theoretical reason (open to learn from art, history, science, etc., yet belonging to itself). The generative project of dialogical sociology-psychology is […]
A Dream of Reason V. Wild Flowers Again Part 1 Retrospective Field Notes on the Sociology of the Early Sixties
V. Wild flowers Again: A Dialogue of Complementary Discontinuity Retrospective Field Notes on the Sociology of the Early Sixties (1988) Opening 1.1 1.11 Here thought – as a caged animal – sniffs and turns in a cage. Again and again it touches the barrier and turns back. The essay ends (I cannot say concludes) with […]
A Dream of Reason V- Part 2 On Violence as a Species of Unreasonable Objectivity
On Violence as a Species of Unreasonable Objectivity (1985) 1 Reason and objectivity are commonly interpreted as necessarily interdependent. We follow a line of traditional usage that identifies objectivity with the capacity to impose on all sane sapient consciousness. Sapient consciousness is inherently “cultural.” Thus to impose on all sapient consciousness is to impose on […]
A Dream of Reason V- Part 3 A Trip to Shadowland
A Trip to Shadowland (2003) When I was a graduate student, in the early 1960s, a professor told me about his research project. His task was to determine how the governing politicians could reassert control when they emerged after a nuclear war. (My doubt that this would be advisable was dismissed as “merely subjective.”) I […]
A Dream of Reason V- Part 4 Embattled Reason
Embattled Reason (1985) 1.Opening Reason attacked “from the right” for questioning tradition is now attacked “from the left” as ground and support of hierarchy. Some enemies on the left attack reason from within. 1.1. Methodological Interlude Foundational exploration and secondary commentary are distinct tasks. Yet there can be fruitful dialogue between them. We proceed […]
A Dream of Reason- VI: Part 2 On Instruction (1973)
On Instruction (1973) 1. Opening 1.1. Instruction and Education 1.11 This essay belongs to the sociology-psychology of education.[1] Yet the term “education” rarely appears in it. Why? Sociology-psychology is a species of theoretical reason. Theoretical reason cannot take consensus qua consensus as its measure and standard. It would assault sociological-psychological reason to follow […]
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