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This week marks the ninth anniversary of my liver transplant; I have had nine more years of life than could have been expected in past times. I [...]
February 15, 2016
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STRANGERS DROWNING LARISSA MACFARQUHAR This has to be the best book I have read so far this year! It is the story of ‘extreme do [...]
January 14, 2016
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Cosmopolitan Sexualities is now published My latest book was published in May 2015 by Polity Press. You can find details and a study guide for it [...]
May 25, 2015
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If our world is to be a decent world in the future, we must acknowledge right now that we are citizens of one interdependent world, [...]
March 15, 2014
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“Empathy” Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible Comfort of feeling safe with a person, Having neither to weight thoughts, Nor measure [...]
March 1, 2014
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A MANIFESTO FOR A CRITICAL HUMANISM IN SOCIOLOGY ON QUESTIONING THE HUMAN SOCIAL WORLD Ken Plummer (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, [...]
June 16, 2013
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Handouts for recent presentations Today I have posted some summary handouts of recent lectures that I have given. The [...]
March 23, 2013
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6th Anniversary of My Transplant: Time for Hallucinatory Stories Today, February 18th, is the 6th Anniversary of my Liver Transplant. I remain [...]
February 18, 2013
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QUOTING HUMANISMS: INSPIRATIONS CHARLES HORTON COOLEY (1964-1929) ‘We live in the minds of others without [...]
November 24, 2012
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Ten Theses on Cosmopolitanism There exists a real humanistic universalism of differences (including sexual differences). Human difference is a [...]
October 9, 2012
