文档介绍：The Missing Mediation in Pragmatic Interpretations of Hegelby Andy Blunden‘Spirit’ is the ‘nature of human beings en masse’Start TalkToday only a Pragmatic Interpretation of Hegel’s ‘Spirit’ is possibleSpirit is not presupposed, ... but simply the coincidence of thinking, social practice and material cultureRecognition is used as the basis for a‘Narrowly Pragmatic’ reading“Narrow” pragmatism explains everything by unmediated interactions between individuals... ignoring material cultureFor Hegel, everything is bothImmediate and MediatedUnmediated intersubjectivity is an is made possible by theSplitting of the subject in TwoIn the absence of mediation, outsiders are wild animals — more dangerous than a horde of locusts. Mead’s I/Me is a rendering of Hegel’s Dialectic of Self-ConsciousnessThe paradigmatic symbol for Mead is the gestureFor Winnicott, the “Transitional Object” is key to the formation of Self-consciousnessThe paradigmatic symbol for Winnicott is the mother’s breast In each case an Artefact is the Mediating elementHegel specifies three paradigmatic activities: (1) the use of tools (2) the use of words, and (3) the raising of children. Axel h misconstrues Mead and Winnicott in the spirit of liberalismthe law is ‘blind’ not ‘personal’Axel h misconstrues Hegelin the spirit of h presumes that psychology can capture social movements by “switching planes” from individual psyche to social movements and institutions