ABSTRACT
Writing qualitatively is a condition that, once performed, governs the writer-subject, the reader-subject, and the writing process. Writing philosophically means acknowledging the rich genealogy of thinkers and ideas and opening up spaces for others to come. Writer-subjects may become unattainable and are consumed by the impossibility of attaining to the writing process. The connectedness of the writer-subject and the reader may also be very tragic, as they may be subjected to a critical, almost metaphysical, lack of a sense of proportion in a certain sense, the tragedy of an empirical world. The writer-subject is still rooted in the world in which they are aware of the dividing lines between all that is intimately familiar and at the same time appropriately a subject of their concern. This chapter presents philosophical thoughts on the writer-subject, the philosophical and qualitative process of writing, and the entanglement with the reader and the wider world.
