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The Uses of Distance
09May09
Whoever next writes a dictionary of critical theory should remember to worry a little in print about distance, and how it is used. Marcel Gauchet writes convincingly about it. Religion is, for Gauchet, that which places its founding moment far away, so that no one will realize it was originally a decision and get the [...]
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I quote this title not in order to satirize it, but in order to explain an error of excess that this blog is prone to, i am, you are, we are prone to, in a bid for celebrity through anonymity. While remaining nameless it is far too easy to call toward a mysterious to-come and, [...]
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