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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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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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holidays at the blog! have a wonderful holiday It’s a Wonderful Life Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other [...]
December 15, 2012
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The Golden Stairs Edward Bourne Jones A copy of this celebrated painting has been recently given to us by dear friends after a visit to the [...]
November 21, 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
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Poetic: Snow I wake up most mornings with a deep sense of the multiplicities of things, and a bafflement at how we can ever comprehend any of it. [...]
August 7, 2012
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Inspirations: William James I first encountered the work of William James as an undergraduate in the 1960’s through his ideas of The Self. [...]
August 3, 2012
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On lists For most of my life, the list has been a central tool for thinking. I use lists to prepare lectures, books, articles; scratch the [...]
July 26, 2012
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On Human Potentials, Capabilities and Rights “What is each person able to do and to be?” (Nussbaum, 2011: p18). A musician must make [...]
July 25, 2012
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Below is my most recent article published in April 2012. It is my first published piece based on my illness. MY MULTIPLE SICK BODIES: SYMBOLIC [...]
July 4, 2012
