The view from the book: a legal psychogeography of the lifeworld

“The dearth of jokes about sociologists indicates, of course, that they are not as much a part of the popular imagination as psychologists have become” Peter L. Berger (1963) An Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective. Pelican Books. Finding my copy of Berger’s book gave me at least two reasons to chuckle, and to ponder that book’s formative spur in my journey towards both legal psychogeography and coaching. Chuckle one: goodbye to the village I read this book in the Summer of my 18th year. I have a vague image of me reading it sat in a municipal deckchair somewhere along my hometown’s seaside edge. But that would have required me to have taken it with me on a jaunt with my mates to promenade along that strip. But that can’t be right. I wouldn’t have brought my bookish side out into that open, my readings and thoughts were something for home and privacy. Being seen reading that book was hardly going to help me interact with young lady passersby. Perhaps then the association…

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