RE: History
Judy (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Tue, 14 Nov 1995 11:39:07 -0500
Gordon, thanks - a note of clarity in the messy project of weighing the
effects of what is "private" on our professional work. The consequence of
implicating (recognizable) others in the publication of one's particular
trajectory or struggle or whatever is the primary ethical constraint on
telling one's "story" -- and probably the primary explanation for the sort
of stories that get constructed - stories of purely professionalized,
intellectualized agents of social work [I am generalizing on the basis of
what I've read -- which does not include the dissertation Angel referred to
or Jay's reflexive account] But I wonder if we might not be sacrificing a
kind of knowledge that is deeply ethical and implicated in the workings of
the world by avoiding the worrisome, affect-ridden, "public"-&-"private"
relational issues that professions do not require us to foreground or
theorize.
Judy Diamondstone
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