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Page 107
... sense of claustrophobia . A convoluted mass of sameness begins to fill our minds . Two aspects of the text , related to the interaction between the central allegory and the surrounding metaphors and digressions , contribute to this ...
... sense of claustrophobia . A convoluted mass of sameness begins to fill our minds . Two aspects of the text , related to the interaction between the central allegory and the surrounding metaphors and digressions , contribute to this ...
Page 115
... Sense and Human Reason " ( T , 61-62 ) . We might wish there were qualitative distinctions hidden within the fumes and damps of human sense and senses , but A Tale of a Tub will not permit them . We cannot schematize or stabilize the ...
... Sense and Human Reason " ( T , 61-62 ) . We might wish there were qualitative distinctions hidden within the fumes and damps of human sense and senses , but A Tale of a Tub will not permit them . We cannot schematize or stabilize the ...
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... sense of personal continuity , the reader rejects this violated body in a primal act of self - assertion . But his own language now becomes inoperable , for the body controls the structure of his verbal identities . As the word script ...
... sense of personal continuity , the reader rejects this violated body in a primal act of self - assertion . But his own language now becomes inoperable , for the body controls the structure of his verbal identities . As the word script ...
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ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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