On 27/08/2009 10:48, "Frances Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Frances to Allan... > My main intent in making statements as are done below is to try > and posit a global realist and pragmatist approach to all art and > all else. To that end, any approach that seems mainly > subjectivist or psychologistic or mentalist like notionalism and > nominalism and rationalism are rejected, although if warranted > they may be retained as special approaches to particular issues. I find this to be what is problematic about the realist and/pragmatist position; both in their own ways are clear about the difficulties in opposing camps of thought, which should be inspiration for transformation, but in each is not. They find the problems of opposing camps intractable, thus entailed, and resort to a pick and mix approach or an attempt to synthesis what they have very perceptibly shown to be irreconcilable in their contradiction of each other. In a Giddensian sense this is structuration: structure and action locked in war with one another. Curiously, Toodle-pip, Allan. -- http://braesidecottage-garden-music.blogspot.com/
