The costs of being invisible
For all the trouble it brings, the omnipresent watchful gaze of the relational world does have its...
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Category: Dirty Looks
An Awareness of What is Missing
Discussion over reason and religion has been so overshadowed by the work of Richard Dawkins and...
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Marx, religion and the vale of tears
Any talk of the relational world must inevitably at some stage come back to religion, a regulatory...
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When enough is enough
Donald Winnicott’s concept of the good enough mother has endured past its psychoanalytic origins,...
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The enemy within: Quislings, West Brits and Uncle Toms
There was the occasional mention of ‘Quisling’ in the run up to the recent Scottish Independence...
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In the presence of absence: (Not) only the lonely
Loneliness has been in and out of the news in the past year, accompanied by headlines such as ‘a...
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Looking for the magic: Sartre on affect
Sartre was rightly fascinated by the power of emotions in human life – as portrayed in his play No...
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How do we come to know our place?
(c) Nico Hogg This is the question Douglas Robertson asks in his recently published article...
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Where do you go beyond structure and agency?
In his book The structure of social theory, Anthony King argues that understandings of society...
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What did Hegel mean by Geist?
(c) Pekka Nikrus In his excellent book The structure of social theory, Anthony King does the...
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Judgement Day
In a previous post, I discussed the role of relational conversion via religious institutions,...
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Being taken seriously
If the land of confusion does exist, more likely than not it reserves a special place for the...
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