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Desire and Fate

Desire and Fate

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Jun 27, 2023
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Sui generis. The cultural revolution sweeping across much of the rich world, with its mix of authoritarian subjectivity most radically expressed by the conviction that human beings are whatever they feel themselves to be and by a kind of lumpen Rousseauism in which what are now called indigenous ways of seeing are taken to be at least reason’s equal and…

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