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... remains as stark as when Wittgenstein wrote the Trac- tatus Logico - Philosophicus ( whatever direction his subsequent thought may have taken ) , and it is appropriate that Harry Levin should have used propositions from that work as the ...
... remains as stark as when Wittgenstein wrote the Trac- tatus Logico - Philosophicus ( whatever direction his subsequent thought may have taken ) , and it is appropriate that Harry Levin should have used propositions from that work as the ...
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... remains a fragmentary collection of attributes . This fragmentation is , I think , at the heart of Strangers and Brothers , and is inherent in the manner in which Snow has chosen to unfold the sequence . It proceeds by a method of ...
... remains a fragmentary collection of attributes . This fragmentation is , I think , at the heart of Strangers and Brothers , and is inherent in the manner in which Snow has chosen to unfold the sequence . It proceeds by a method of ...
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... remains distinct from the real Montaigne . The short answer to this is that the real Montaigne remains for ever unknowable , except to God ; any attempt to render the self in verbal terms , whether in a fully literary way , or in the ...
... remains distinct from the real Montaigne . The short answer to this is that the real Montaigne remains for ever unknowable , except to God ; any attempt to render the self in verbal terms , whether in a fully literary way , or in the ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
Copyright | |
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