Comment: Family Relations: Response to “Authority and the Family: Some Considerations”

Abstract

I would like to open the published version of my remarks on the papers given in this section of the conference by congratulating Drs. Cafagna and Peterson. The need for communication between the various fiefdoms of intellectual life, the entrenched disciplines of our universities is, at the moment, so urgent that any attempt to help in this area is welcome. When the attempt is made with hard work and intelligence, and the result the level of scholarship achieved at the conference in 1980, then the organizers must be encouraged in the hope that others will emulate them. Those of us who have been engaged in the organization of conferences of scholars from a single discipline can only marvel at the dilligence that has been the obvious order of the day for the hosts: congratulations.