Vita Contemplativa

A Life in Part

Bibliographic Data

ID5954948
AuthorsStewart Clegg (0000-0001-6083-4283, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author), Stewart R Clegg (University of Technology Sydney)
Year2005
Volume26
Issue2
Pages291-309
Publication date2005-01-25
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOrganization Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0170-8406 • E-ISSN: 1741-3044
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0170840605049468
OpenAlexW2002937959
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited71

Life, art and science are irremediably intertwined: how, where and with whom one shares the brief moments of existence necessarily affect what one thinks, how one writes, and what one will address. Being a scholar is a vocation, as Weber knew only too well, in which science, ethics and art blend; sometimes seamlessly, sometimes not. None who live an intellectual and public life are immune to the normal glosses of the sociology of knowledge and this paper provides glimpses, through a personal lens, of what such a gloss might see. It is a glimpse of a life still living and lived; an artist still at work, an agenda still being developed, frozen like a snapshot of an instant - and just as representative. Can a snapshot capture an essence? Sometimes. Whether this does is left to others to judge

Craft · Gloss (optics · Instant · Snapshot (computer storage · Sociology of culture · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Historical and Literary Studies · University Challenges and Reforms

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