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... individual expression and of individual experience . The ultimate question is whether a movement which , though compli- cated , is basically circular can have the same significance and value as a forward and linear movement . The novel ...
... individual expression and of individual experience . The ultimate question is whether a movement which , though compli- cated , is basically circular can have the same significance and value as a forward and linear movement . The novel ...
Page 53
... individual and the individual apprehension of experience , and which in practice drew most of its strength from the dual tension between individuals and each other , and between individuals and society ; then one is entitled to ask them ...
... individual and the individual apprehension of experience , and which in practice drew most of its strength from the dual tension between individuals and each other , and between individuals and society ; then one is entitled to ask them ...
Page 54
... individual and society by collapsing both concepts : - ' Society ' and the ' individual ' are both essentialist abstractions , based on the notion that persons and institutions are closed , demarcated beings , with fixed boundaries ...
... individual and society by collapsing both concepts : - ' Society ' and the ' individual ' are both essentialist abstractions , based on the notion that persons and institutions are closed , demarcated beings , with fixed boundaries ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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