tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post2428891977807969786..comments2024-03-13T04:57:22.459-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Three conceptions of biographyDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-32596454206328598412016-05-23T22:20:00.670-04:002016-05-23T22:20:00.670-04:00I wonder if the contingent and purposeful may sele...I wonder if the contingent and purposeful may selectively apply to different aspects of a single life?<br />Say career and love life.<br />Or take Nabokov. Where he lived was contingent, after all he was a refugee. But he always had control over his life as a writer. Yet, his mark as a writer was in the books he wrote asa result of being forced to adopt English as his language of arthowie bermannoreply@blogger.com