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JOHN ANDERSON did not hesitate to adopt, reinterpret and incorporate an idea from another thinker without particular concern for its original context. There is nothing to criticise in that. Creative thinkers do it all the time. With some writers, especially poetic ones such as, say, Nietzsche or D.H. Lawrence, it may be the only way to read them. To treat them as formal and systematic thinkers is to devitalise them and miss any insights they may have. But the point applies more broadly. In all cases of influence or collaboration, it is the intuitive flash of insight or understanding that matters.
In this spirit Anderson was able to absorb, for example, the idea ...