HES: Re: QUERY--Creative communities?

[E.Schoorl]

As a J.B.Say scholar, Evelyn Forget must have been struck by the many 
communities in which he participated: French 18th century salons, an 
international Huguenot network (he was a registered Citoyen de 
Geneve), the Philosophical Radicals with whom he communicated and the 
Political Economy Club where he was a guest speaker.

A few questions from a complete layman: are situations of poltical 
upheaval (French Revolution, WW I, WW II) a favourable or necessary 
condition? What can be said about insider/outsider or established 
communities/homines novi relationships (gender was mentioned already)? 
What about interdisciplinarity? Where do we go from noticing 
coincidence to causal relationship?

Evert Schoorl