FOOD FOR CONTINUED THOUGHTS

Below on my blog I used the term "sympathetic reading" and I also intertwined a piece of poetic writing with a piece of writing based upon both educational theory and social and political theory related to education and learning practices in the world as it is or as we find it structured. What was more was that that blog was aimed at some comments on the Toby Lewis site "Reasons Sword" ( see links) where Wittginstein was an attempted thread. So now may I offer something more for this table talk :-

" The challenge today is to find alternative forms of social rationality beyond the positivistic extremes of both state socialism and utilitarian liberal capitalism ... For a genuine social rationality to exist we must refuse to allow the critical and interpretative functions to be reduced to the calculative ... Therefore we need a third dimension of language, a critical and creative dimension, which is directed towards neither scientific verification nor ordinary communication but towards a disclosure of possible worlds. This third dimension I call the poetic. The adequate self-understanding of the man(sic) is dependent on this third dimension of language as a disclosure of possibility."
( from Paul Ricoeur )

I trust that this small snippit makes reasonable sense in the context of the Awkward Squad Ring of Disenchantment. Maybe the conversation may continue ........