Editorial: On Sande Cohen

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Notes

1. The attempt to get ‘right’ a thinker as complex and as deliberately difficult as Sande Cohen is a formidable task, and is made doubly so (self-consciously so) when one is aware that he will be reading such attempts … no doubt he will much prefer his own versions of ‘Sande Cohen and history’ and ‘Sande Cohen and …’ to those offered here. And so the usual caveat is to the point; namely, that these are very much our own personal readings of, and engagements with, Cohen. This is how he appeared, on this occasion, to us. Incidentally, Sande Cohen didn't want to see our papers prior to publication and nor, with the exception of myself as ‘Editor’, have the writers of the papers seen each others papers, or Cohen's, until now. Again, little interventionist editorial work has been expended on the papers; no attempt has been made to standardise the registers, lexicons and vocabularies, nor the ‘levels’ at which they are articulated.