ABSTRACT
The following essay has been developed from analyses, questions, and responses occasioned by an invitation from Stanley Raffel and Eric Laurier to re-visit and re-read On the Beginning of Social Inquiry (OBSI in the text). Given its particular context these responses are necessarily incomplete, originating from commentary and marginalia made in my original copy of the 1974 publication, from memories of my own participation in seminars with Alan Blum and Peter McHugh during the early 1970s (c.1971–1974), and from creative – and continuing – questions that the papers in the book, and the project of Analytical theorizing more generally, still provoke and inspire. Modifications to the original text were helped by lectures and discussions held at the Edinburgh Conference on OBSI from June 10th to June 11th 2014.
