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... human illusion . They purported to offer a science of humanity , a Weltanschauung that would explain human behaviour . At a time when other belief - systems were breaking down , ' Freudism ' and ' Marxism ' offered what seemed to many ...
... human illusion . They purported to offer a science of humanity , a Weltanschauung that would explain human behaviour . At a time when other belief - systems were breaking down , ' Freudism ' and ' Marxism ' offered what seemed to many ...
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... human nature ' . The genotype gives us , rather , ' brute nature ' the nature of man as a brute , prior to his or her acquisition , through socialisation and culture , of humanity , or human nature ... [ Moreover ] it is clear that ...
... human nature ' . The genotype gives us , rather , ' brute nature ' the nature of man as a brute , prior to his or her acquisition , through socialisation and culture , of humanity , or human nature ... [ Moreover ] it is clear that ...
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... Human beings become human through the acquisition of language , and this acquisition alienates humans from all those things that language names . The name is a substitute for the thing : it displaces the thing in the very act of naming ...
... Human beings become human through the acquisition of language , and this acquisition alienates humans from all those things that language names . The name is a substitute for the thing : it displaces the thing in the very act of naming ...
Contents
Editors Foreword | 1 |
Caudwell in the Thirties | 23 |
The Poet and Novelist | 52 |
Copyright | |
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