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Page 239
... nature . Often , the heuristic device of a " state of nature " -a pre - social and sometimes pre - political condition — was used to " prove " how certain qualities in humans were either the result of social conditioning or intrinsic to ...
... nature . Often , the heuristic device of a " state of nature " -a pre - social and sometimes pre - political condition — was used to " prove " how certain qualities in humans were either the result of social conditioning or intrinsic to ...
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... nature as Butler sees it is its static quality , evinced in a human incapacity to change in response to radically altered conditions . The force by which humans are wedded to their bio- logically - determined natures and their inability ...
... nature as Butler sees it is its static quality , evinced in a human incapacity to change in response to radically altered conditions . The force by which humans are wedded to their bio- logically - determined natures and their inability ...
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... nature proposed in many of these feminist utopias with that depicted in Butler's works . Butler's support for the notion of disparate human natures resulting from biological differences is an ideological element which her works share ...
... nature proposed in many of these feminist utopias with that depicted in Butler's works . Butler's support for the notion of disparate human natures resulting from biological differences is an ideological element which her works share ...
Contents
Glenn Grant Transcendence Through Detournement | 41 |
Ivan Adamovič Czech SF in the Last Forty Years | 50 |
NOTES | 57 |
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