This book presents a collection of interrelated essays that analyze the theoretical foundations of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology written by one of the pioneers in this field of research: Dr. Lívia Mathias Simão, senior professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. In each of the five essays included in this book, the author establishes a dialogue with key thinkers and intellectual traditions of dialogical approaches arriving at core points of I-other relationships according to the perspective of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology.
The first essay establishes a dialogue with Greek philosophers such as Parmenides and Aristotle. In the second essay this dialogue is established with semiotic-constructivist psychologists such as Jaan Valsiner, Ragnar Rommetveit and Ivana Marková. The third essay is a dialogue with the contributions of Ernst Boesch’s symbolic action theory. The fourth essay proposes a dialogue between semiotic-cultural constructivists and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutics. Finally, the fifth essay proposes how the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas contributes to dialogical studies of I-other in the context of semiotic-cultural constructivism.Originally published in Portuguese for the Brazilian market, Dialogical Essays: From Difference to Sharing in I-Other Relationships is now published in English in an international edition that will be of interest to psychologists, philosophers, historians and other human and social scientists interested in epistemological, ontological and ethical aspects of I-other relationships from the perspective of semiotic-cultural constructivism and cultural psychology.
Author(s): Lívia Mathias Simão
Series: Latin American Voices
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 171
City: Cham
Foreword to the Portuguese Edition
The Disquieting World of Responsibility
Foreword to the English Edition
Preface of the Series Editor
Dialogical Space in Human Sciences
References
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Dialogue with Greek Philosophy on the Transformations in I-Other Relations
1.1 Transformation, Essence, and Appearance
1.1.1 Transformation as Illusion, Uncertainty, and Imperfection
1.1.1.1 Parmenides and the Inescapable Illusion of Multiplicity
1.1.1.2 Plato and the Inescapable Illusion of Imperfection
1.1.2 Transformation as Potentiality and Becoming
1.1.2.1 Aristotle and the Becoming Happy
1.1.2.2 Heraclitus and Unity in Tension
1.2 Core Topics in This Dialogue
1.2.1 Dualism Between Reason and Sensitivity: The Semiotic-Constructivist Path for Dealing with a Difficulty Inherited from Parmenides and Aristotle
1.2.2 The Ceaseless and Ultimate Search for Perfection: The Semiotic-Constructivist Path for Dealing with a Platonic Legacy
1.2.3 The Insufficiency of the I to Know Itself: The Semiotic-Constructivist Path for Dealing with the Aristotelian Warning
1.2.4 Duality, Tension, and the Whole: Semiotic-Constructivist Paths for Dealing with the Heraclitean Becoming Toward the Logos
References
Chapter 2: Dialogue with Theorists of Semiotic-Constructivist Psychology on Human Intersubjectivity
2.1 Intersubjectivity as Movement in Jaan Valsiner’s Propositions
2.1.1 Core Questions from the Dialogue with Valsiner on Human Intersubjectivity
2.2 Intersubjectivity as a State of Availability in Ragnar Rommetveit’s Propositions
2.2.1 The Architecture of Intersubjectivity
2.3 Beyond Intersubjectivity: The Ego-Alter Dialogy in the Propositions of Ivana Marková
2.3.1 Conversation Is More Than Adding or Setting Aside Ideas
2.3.2 Dialoguing Is More Than Seeking to Share
2.3.3 Dialoguing Is Remaining Oneself While Transforming
References
Chapter 3: Dialogue with Ernst Boesch on I-Other Relations Seen as the Experience of the Actional I in Its Cultural Field
3.1 The I-Other Relation in Boesch: An Interlocution Challenge
3.2 Core Aspects of Ernst Boesch’s Symbolic Action Theory
3.2.1 The Culture-Individual-Culture Cycle
3.2.1.1 The Action-Object Relation in the Cultural Field
3.2.2 The Subject-Object Relation in the Structuring of Identity
3.2.3 The Holistic Web of I-Other Relations
3.2.4 Identity, Consistency, and Conflict in Personal Structuring Through Myths and Fantasms
3.3 Dialogue with Boesch on I-Other Relations
3.3.1 I, Other, Empathy
3.3.2 I, Other, Myths, and Fantasms
3.3.3 Actional I, Self, and Other
3.3.4 I, Other, Barriers, and Frontiers
References
Chapter 4: Dialogue on I-Other Relations from Gadamerian Hermeneutics Reflections
4.1 The Hermeneutic Option in Boesch’s Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism
4.2 The Hermeneutic Option in Valsiner’s Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism
4.3 The Choice for Gadamer
4.4 Hermeneutics Before and with Gadamer
4.4.1 The Hermeneutic Task
4.4.2 Experience as a Relation of Negativity
4.4.2.1 The Experience of Negativity in Relation to Tradition
4.4.2.2 The Experience of Negativity in the Relationship with the Thou
4.4.3 Preconceptions, Anticipation of Meaning, and Emergence of Novelty: The Hermeneutic Circle
4.4.4 Bildung as a Paradigm of the Hermeneutic I-Other-Culture Relation in Gadamer
4.4.5 Fusion of Horizons, Transformation, and Commitment with the Other in Hermeneutic Dialogue
4.5 Summary of the Dialogue with Gadamer
4.6 In Search of a Hermeneutic-Dialogic Understanding of I-Other Relations in Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism
4.7 The I-Other-Culture Relation as a Hermeneutic Relation in Boesch’s Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism
4.7.1 Boesch’s Conception of the Educational Process
4.8 The I-Other-Culture Relation as a Hermeneutic Relation in Valsiner’s Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism
4.8.1 Questions About the Educational Process from Valsiner’s Perspective
4.8.2 Constraints and the Opening to the Other in Valsiner
References
Chapter 5: Dialogue on Temporality and Alterity in I-Other Relations Inspired by the Philosophy of Levinas
5.1 The I-Other Relation as Noncoincidence
5.2 The Solitude of the I
5.3 The Other as Mystery
5.4 Present, Future, and the Becoming
5.5 Desire and Future
5.6 Futurity and Responsibility
5.7 Contemporary Semiotic-Constructivist Paths Toward Alterity
5.7.1 On Futurity and Intersubjectivity
5.7.2 On Futurity and Responsibility
5.7.3 Noncoincidence and the Emergence of Novelty
5.7.4 About Anonymity
References
Index
