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... existence , ruined creatures with no more life in them than Robbe - Grillet's centipede crushed on the wall . And yet how superbly articulate they all are , how much and how well they all talk ; seldom can a movement towards silence and ...
... existence , ruined creatures with no more life in them than Robbe - Grillet's centipede crushed on the wall . And yet how superbly articulate they all are , how much and how well they all talk ; seldom can a movement towards silence and ...
Page 53
... existence in a social vacuum and , as I have stressed , has been im- plicated throughout its existence with social , ideological and even technological factors ; I have no objection , even , to describing the liberalism that pervades ...
... existence in a social vacuum and , as I have stressed , has been im- plicated throughout its existence with social , ideological and even technological factors ; I have no objection , even , to describing the liberalism that pervades ...
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... existence , quite apart from any of our judgments , has value , that existence is worthful . ' One can regard this sentiment as more acceptable than the inhuman assumptions of the absurdist school , and yet remain unconvinced about the ...
... existence , quite apart from any of our judgments , has value , that existence is worthful . ' One can regard this sentiment as more acceptable than the inhuman assumptions of the absurdist school , and yet remain unconvinced about the ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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