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... present , the absences of what is now present , and not the absences in absolute terms . All one can do is discover in these absences , in what is absent in the present , " traces of the history of the present , " as Nancy Armstrong ...
... present , the absences of what is now present , and not the absences in absolute terms . All one can do is discover in these absences , in what is absent in the present , " traces of the history of the present , " as Nancy Armstrong ...
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... present , but the history of the present an attempt to free thought from thinking the past as already gone . " Writing about the past , " says John Rajchman , “ is a way of criticizing the present under the assumption that the past ...
... present , but the history of the present an attempt to free thought from thinking the past as already gone . " Writing about the past , " says John Rajchman , “ is a way of criticizing the present under the assumption that the past ...
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... present is absolutely necessary as its foundation . In Smart , the present becomes a future in the past , the kind of time in which nothing exists in itself but is always a relation of past to future ( and of future to past ) without ...
... present is absolutely necessary as its foundation . In Smart , the present becomes a future in the past , the kind of time in which nothing exists in itself but is always a relation of past to future ( and of future to past ) without ...
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