ABSTRACT
The editors of this volume, I understand, have sternly advised the contributors not to indulge in personal reminiscences, recriminations or ruminations. Presumably this admonition applies to me as well. For obvious reasons impersonality is more difficult for me than for the other contributors; it would mean my looking at my own work as if it were someone else’s - a rather improbable feat of intellectual detachment even for one committed to Weberian ‘value-freeness.’ I must ask the indulgence of both editors and readers if the following remarks take on a more personal tone.
