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Do theoreticians have lives? | 7 comments

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by Aileen on Sat Nov 15th, 2003 at 03:14:28 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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asking what motivates people to divide up into couples and families is an important set of questions, but one so overdetermined by complex factors that it's hard to consider
Or as Joe said in his comment above, the "contradiction" of family - I think maybe what I am looking for is a different question, a way of looking at different relationships in the different and changing contexts that every person lives in. How can we name those relationships to attribute a value to them, to acknowledge the dependency of everything we do on interactions with other people? Whose praise or recognition matters to me, and how does that affect my priorities?
Maybe I have been spending too much time alone in front of my computer, but it seems to me that the question of naming relationships and different constellations of interaction (also and especially in terms of different kinds of "work") could be important in counteracting the consequences of too much emphasis on individual self-reliance on the part of political decision-makers (in Austria, at least, and I strongly suspect that there are similar developments in other countries).

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