Science-fiction Studies, Volume 13SFS Publications., 1986 - Electronic journals |
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The motivations , or rationalizations , of the tale may refer to any of the main spheres of human interest implicit in the tale : the affective bonds and desires of social life associated with the lack , the instrumental rationality ...
The motivations , or rationalizations , of the tale may refer to any of the main spheres of human interest implicit in the tale : the affective bonds and desires of social life associated with the lack , the instrumental rationality ...
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In the earlier works — such as God and Paradise — the zone of displaced social reality is populated by a perverse humanity : the benighted Arkanar of God , apparently doomed to deviate from the known course of sociohistorical evolution ...
In the earlier works — such as God and Paradise — the zone of displaced social reality is populated by a perverse humanity : the benighted Arkanar of God , apparently doomed to deviate from the known course of sociohistorical evolution ...
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The structure of myth and its story aid people in thinking through contradictions in their social world by displacing those contradictions into metaphor , at the same time identifying and resolving them in ways that help people live ...
The structure of myth and its story aid people in thinking through contradictions in their social world by displacing those contradictions into metaphor , at the same time identifying and resolving them in ways that help people live ...
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Nachman BenYehuda Sociological Reflections | 64 |
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