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Anchored in the past: Identity and nostalgia
How does nostalgia for a golden past shape our identities, our deepest sense of who we really are as individuals and as members of groups?How does
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Othering as the shadow of the shadow - Beyond the metaphysics of despair 2
Part 1 of this posting examined some of the ambiguities of C. G. Jung's seminal idea of the shadow and some of the reasons for its current
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Othering as the shadow of the shadow - Beyond the metaphysics of despair 1
This posting is an abridged version of an essay that will be published in "Zarzadzanie w Kulturze" ("Culture Management").We are
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The perfect moussaka for 4 ... or for 20 (including 5 vegetarians)
Some of my readers have scolded me for not specifying the quantities in my recipe for the classic but minimum effort Greek moussaka. One of the
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Magic Money Tree Economics. A Story Retold and a Theory Reconsidered
This blog does not normally host postings by other authors. Exceptionally however, I have decided to publish a short article by economist Yiannis
The COVID-19 Crisis as a Test of Followership
Is it not time we stopped asking what leaders and science can do to fight COVID-19 and ask instead what followers should be doing? Accepting that we
Fake news, filter bubbles and tall stories in a post-truth era: Roles and responsibilities of intellectuals
Like many other words that suddenly catch the limelight in our virus-prone era, post-truth is widely used today, in spite of limited agreement on its
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The mysteries of Mahler's Eighth revealed - Questions about its musical qualities remains
For many years, musicologist Stephen Johnson entertained, educated and stimulated Radio 3 listeners with his brilliant commentaries for Discovering
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Will Boris Johnson emerge from his illness as a 'twice born' leader?
I have hesitated to write anything about the COVID-19 crisis, aware of the pandemonium of voices seeking to say something original about it, most of
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An old person reflecting on COVID-19
I have been reluctant to add to the pandemonium in the media and social media with my own thoughts on the COVID-19 epidemic. In the midst of millions
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Beethoven - The artist as universal hero
Some thoughts on the artist as universal hero, an image epitomized in Beethoven whose 250th anniversary we are celebrating this year. Few artists
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The doctoral thesis - Proof of scholarly vocation or of virtuosity in a game? Part 2
In an earlier posting, I asked whether doctoral research in the social science can be seen as shifting from craft production to mass production. In
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The doctoral thesis - Entry to a vocation or virtuosity in a game?
The PhD thesis has long been the defining landmark of every scholar’s life. Like the fictional hero of John Williams’s novel Stoner, many if not
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The three graces - Beethoven's last three piano sonatas
Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas have always formed a unity, a trinity even. Composed between 1820 and 1822 in the last years of the
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Management studies: Scholarship or fraud?
This is a review of a book that casts a deep shadow on the state of management studies as a scholarly field today. It is a field where honest and