reflexivity

"meta-"...

Suissa on the "before we can..."

recursivity — Chomsky on infinite recursion in syntax (as unique property of human language... cognition)

What is the role or the status of the self — of subjectivity — in anarchism?

Ruth Kinna discusses a variety — a spectrum? — of anarchist(ic) approaches to the question of the relationship of the individual to the world. Stirners' Egoism — ... However she seems much more comfortable putting people and ideas into boxes than i feel behooves us as anarchists...

Mohammed Bamyeh rather describes the variety in a manner more evocative of "family resemblances" (Wittgenstein...). Oscar Wilde and Emma Goldman on individual and social liberation (Bamyeh 16-19).


 * Who am i?**

As the author of this essay / site / wiki / project, i feel it is most appropriate to situate the explicit consideration of my own personal experiences and perspectives within the broader discussion of conceptions of the self and (inter)subjectivity. I consider first-person articulation(s) to be both necessary and (in the sense that any individual's unique and contingent perspective shapes and influences even the most 'objective' articulations) inevitable — a conviction that separates me immediately from anyone (anarchists or otherwise) who might like to argue that a philosophical project of this sort could succeed without necessarily venturing into the swamp of subjectivity.

Embarking on an account of how i came to be interested in pursuing this project, and how i arrived at an interest in anarchist(ic) approaches to education in general, my initial concern is to adequately contextualize a personal narrative, to provide a sufficiently detailed description of the circumstances surrounding certain pivotal events and choices in my life, that might illustrate for a reader the background against which the major ideas, insights, and convictions that converge in the present work emerged and evolved. In doing so, i must bear in mind that a reader may or may not have rich recollections of similar experiences from which to draw analogies.

There is some anxiety, then, built in to an anarchist(ic) approach to writing personal history. How do i explain my thinking to an unknown other, whose interpretive apparatus may be incompatible, to some greater or lesser degree, with the presuppositions of my text?

//"Tout autre est tout autre."// Is this true?

Martin Buber: I and Thou Buber's friend, anarchist Gustav Landauer

Sebastian Faure... (as Colin Ward says...)