Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Ferdinand Tönnies
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Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) was a co-founder – with Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart and Max Weber – and first president of the German Sociological Society (1909). He is best known and remembered for his pairing of social groupings into Gemeinschaft (community) and Gesellschaft (society) a pairing that has often been linked to Durkheim’s mechanical and organic solidarity, Henry Sumner Maine’s status and contract and even Spengler among others’ distinction between culture and civilization. But different sorts of will, two different kinds of underlying drives, forces, impetus’ which propel different Continue reading Sociology and Anthropology Monday: Ferdinand Tönnies

POETRY MONDAY: June 2, 2014
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On Inaugural Poetry

Few of us who were alive and watching then will forget Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961. There were the almost heartbreaking moments as he struggled in bright sunlight to read the text of the poem he had composed for the occasion and then abandoned it and recited from memory a Kennedy favorite, “The Gift Outright,” changing a line at the end to make it, as he said, “more hopeful.” It was thrilling not only to see and hear the great Frost himself but to realize that poetry had become part of our national celebration. Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: June 2, 2014

Connecting Empirical Science and Qualitative Psychoanalytic Data with Howard Shevrin
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Click Here to Read:  Connecting Empirical   Science and Qualitative Psychoanalytic  Data with Howard Shevrin at the  Discussion Group 12: Research on the Relation of Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience: Clinical Meaning and Empirical Science  at the APsaA Meetings in Chicago  on June 6, 2014 from 2:30 to 4:30 PM.

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Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86
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Click Here to Read and View:  Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86 by Emma Brown in The Washington Post on May 28, 2014.

Video:  Maya Angelou, one of America’s most celebrated poets, novelists and civil-rights activists has passed away. Angelou, who served on two Presidential committees and was awarded numerous awards, was 86 years old.

Click Here to Read:  Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86 By Margalit Fox in The New York Times on  May 28, 2014.