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Ever since Gramsci's notion of hegemony entailing an equal & opposite resistance of the oppressed, anyone who relates the so-called grand narrative of Western domination is also likely to subvert it by invoking “weapons of the weak,” or some such local discourse of cultural defiance. This is a no-lose strategy, since the two characterizations in some combination will cover any and every historical eventuality.
— May 06, 2021 01:18AM
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As Sartre said of a certain vulgar Marxism, we are impelled to take the real content of a thought or an act as a mere appearance, and having dissolved this particular in a universal (here economic interest), we take satisfaction in believing we have reduced appearance to truth.
— May 05, 2021 08:23AM
Ipsa
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As polyphonic or heteroglossic as the monograph may be, one does not find a Japanese voice in a Sioux Indian ethnography.
In order for the categories to be contested at all, there must be a common system of intelligibility. The differences at issue always entail some relationship. As Cassierer says in another context, “an awareness of a difference is an awareness of a connection.
— May 05, 2021 05:29AM
In order for the categories to be contested at all, there must be a common system of intelligibility. The differences at issue always entail some relationship. As Cassierer says in another context, “an awareness of a difference is an awareness of a connection.
Ipsa
is on page 35 of 96
In Adam (Smith)’s Fall, Sinned We All:
...the genesis of Economics was the economics of Genesis...The real reason Economics is dismal is that it is the science of the post-lapsarian condition. And the Economic Man inhabiting page one of (any) General Principles of Economics textbook is Adam.
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— May 05, 2021 04:13AM
...the genesis of Economics was the economics of Genesis...The real reason Economics is dismal is that it is the science of the post-lapsarian condition. And the Economic Man inhabiting page one of (any) General Principles of Economics textbook is Adam.
I LOVE MARSHALL SAHLINS !!!!!!!!
