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Page 51
... social controls maintains a state of affairs in which the given social reality is absolute , and there are no longer any intellectual or volitional pos- sibilities of transcending that reality . And the active movements in the western ...
... social controls maintains a state of affairs in which the given social reality is absolute , and there are no longer any intellectual or volitional pos- sibilities of transcending that reality . And the active movements in the western ...
Page 53
... social and economic organisation but rather a state of mind ' ; the connections between all three are not so easily ... social vacuum and , as I have stressed , has been im- plicated throughout its existence with social , ideological and ...
... social and economic organisation but rather a state of mind ' ; the connections between all three are not so easily ... social vacuum and , as I have stressed , has been im- plicated throughout its existence with social , ideological and ...
Page 126
... social one . What we are offered instead is a dubious kind of detachment , a front seat at the social show . Both authors probably inherit this transaction from the great example of Proust , whose whole vast social structure exists ...
... social one . What we are offered instead is a dubious kind of detachment , a front seat at the social show . Both authors probably inherit this transaction from the great example of Proust , whose whole vast social structure exists ...
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Preface 74 | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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