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FICHTNER, Bernd. The significance of the categories of Spinoza's ethics for cultural historical research. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.41, pp.04-13. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/231819822016101.

The starting-point for this presentation is a joint Brazilian-German research project on "Reading and Writing as a Cultural Praxis of Youth". This was an empirical qualitative study on the basis of open "dialogical interviews" (Bakhtin) which focused on this praxis of youths. In addition to Bakhtin as a methodological perspective, Lurija's concept of a "romantic science" became fundamental to our project1. The goals of our research were as follows: 1. To understand reading and writing in their interrelationship as a specific form of cultural praxis; 2. To contribute by means of research on this specific praxis to the theoretical dimensions of the concept of "cultural praxis" as a symbolically mediated praxis; 3. To better understand - precisely by means of this praxis on the part of children and youths - current changes in reading and writing. To this end, we proceeded from the assumption that children and youths have a particular sensitivity for symbolizing their experiences with regard to new developments in a society2; 4. We intended to concretize these goals in a "cultural comparison" of this praxis on the part of Brazilian and German youths. With the following remarks, we will not be presenting the project in its entirety, its results, or the discussion thereof. Rather, we would like to discuss one particular aspect in more detail: the problem of cultural differences, the explosive nature of which only became evident in the course of the research process.

Palavras-chave : Cultural praxis; cultural comparison; cultural differences.

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