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"what is socially peripheral is symbolically central"
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As an antidote to the perceived immorality of democratic states, elite writers advocated an ethics and politics of self-mastery. The ethical demand to be sovereign over oneself and one's pleasures in critical writing was less a prescription for ordinary citizens than a justification for a paternalist politics headed by either a small ruling ing class or a monarch.23
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