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Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the…
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It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that…
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For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military…
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It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
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Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology…
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If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in…
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So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to…
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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its…
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In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism -…
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything…
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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations…
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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television,…
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,…
— Aristotle
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If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
— Plato
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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up…
— Giambattista Vico
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So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone…
— Catharine MacKinnon
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No human society, present or past, has lacked music. Music is therefore one of the very few human universals, which puts it…
— Unknown Author
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Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be…
— Aristotle
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Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People…
— Clare Vanderpool
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Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against…
— Jeffrey Tucker
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A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything…
— Fredric Jameson
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We may appreciate the efforts, and even the greatness of the men who have tried to find the universal, the general 'behind'…
— Hans Rookmaaker
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
— Bertrand Russell
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