This Week's LeFevre and Last Week's Readings

LeFevre's conceptions of the soul show a little of why the individuality of invention is so entrenched in our teaching techniques, and makes the social turn seem all the more revolutionary. The social may be discussed as its own creature, not because anyone thinks of it as a being in itself, but because that focus helps us to turn away from the Romantic vision of the individual. (Apologies if I'm rendering Latour one-dimensional in this discussion; his discussions help to strip the superpower away from "social" as a term, but he definitely does more than that.)

Overall, the readings from last week showed the social turn as a major event, and LeFevre's work helps to put it in context. We've had thousands of years of this focus on the individual informing our invention techniques, so it makes sense that the social would be seen as problematic in whatever light. It's a revolution that's ongoing.

(I'm pretty new to all of this, so pardon any unscholarly zeal.)