Tag: metaphysics
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Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy
Andrew Bowie’s Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy offers an extraordinarily fertile questioning of what Theodor W. Adorno’s thought can mean for us today, illuminating a path through his dense theoretical landscapes while refusing to reduce that complexity to easy formulations. From the very start, the work underscores the ambiguities and challenges in Adorno’s legacy:…
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Music, Philosophy, and Modernity
Andrew Bowie’s Music, Philosophy, and Modernity offers a far-reaching exploration of how the confluence of musical practice and philosophy can illuminate core questions about meaning, subjectivity, and truth in the modern world, while simultaneously challenging entrenched assumptions about the very nature of philosophical reflection. In many prevailing accounts, music has been treated as a problem…
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Idealism and the Endgame of Theory: Three Essays by F. W. J. Schelling
Idealism and the Endgame of Theory by Thomas Pfau offers a challenging, almost vertiginous engagement with the conceptual heart of German Idealism and its repercussions for contemporary debates about the nature, purpose, and limits of theoretical reflection. Although Schelling remains an enigmatic figure in Anglophone philosophical discourse, widely overshadowed by the more systematizing narratives of…
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Schelling and Modern European Philosophy: An Introduction
Andrew Bowie’s Schelling and Modern European Philosophy offers an extraordinarily thorough, compelling, and philosophically rich presentation of F. W. J. Schelling as a pivotal figure in the history of European thought. It is, in every sense, the first text in English to elevate Schelling from his long-standing status as a mere footnote to Kant or,…
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Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of World History
LECTURESON THEPHILOSOPHYOFWORLD HISTORY Volume 1: Manuscripts of the Introductionand The Lectures of 1822–1823 GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OFWORLD HISTORYVOLUME 1MANUSCRIPTS OF THE INTRODUCTIONANDTHE LECTURES OF 1822–1823 Edited and Translated byRobert E. Brown and Peter C. Hodgson with the assistance ofWilliam G. Geuss Digital edition bySimon Gros This volume is a translation…
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Idealism Without Limits: Hegel and the Problem of Objectivity
In Idealism Without Limits: Hegel and the Problem of Objectivity, Klaus Brinkmann makes a philosophical examination of the nature of objective knowledge, offering a comprehensive and transcendental interpretation of Hegel’s philosophical system. Brinkmann’s work is a formidable exploration of Hegel’s response to the critical epistemological questions first raised by Kant and later advanced through the…
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The Romantic Absolute: Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804
Dalia Nassar’s The Romantic Absolute offers an invaluable contribution to understanding the evolution of Romantic philosophy, particularly through its detailed analysis of three key figures—Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel, and Friedrich Schelling. Nassar’s work stands out not only for its intellectual rigor but also for its distinctive approach to understanding the intersection of epistemology and metaphysics in…
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Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy
Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy presents the sweeping intellectual legacy of James Bradley, a British-Canadian philosopher whose work epitomizes the speculative spirit of metaphysics in its most ambitious form. Edited by Sean J. McGrath, with a preface by Peter Harris, this monumental volume is the first to assemble Bradley’s essays, tracing the evolving trajectory of…
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Schelling’s Ontology of Powers
Charlotte Alderwick’s Schelling’s Ontology of Powers offers an innovatively argued engagement with Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s metaphysics, presenting a holistic and power-based ontology that combines historical philosophical rigor with contemporary relevance. This book not only re-examines Schelling’s contributions to the post-Kantian philosophical tradition but also situates his thought within the contemporary analytic debates on power-based…
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The Philosophical Rupture between Fichte and Schelling: Selected Texts and Correspondence (1800–1802)
In The Philosophical Rupture Between Fichte and Schelling, editors Michael G. Vater and David W. Wood offer an unparalleled entry point into the contentious and transformative relationship between two of post-Kantian philosophy’s towering figures: Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. This carefully curated volume not only illuminates the intellectual trajectories of these thinkers…
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Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism
In Abolishing Freedom: A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism, Frank Ruda crafts an audacious and deeply intellectual analysis of the paradoxical relationship between freedom and necessity. At the basis of this work lies a provocative argument: the modern conception of freedom as synonymous with the ability to choose is fundamentally flawed, obscuring a…
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Philosophy, Freedom, Language, and their Others: Contemporary Legacies of German Idealism
Philosophy, Freedom, Language, and Their Others: Contemporary Legacies of German Idealism is an ambitious exploration of freedom, philosophy, and their interconnections with language, politics, religion, aesthetics, and ethics. Anchored in the conceptual frameworks of Kantian and Hegelian thought, this anthology does more than merely revisit German Idealism; it transforms the legacy of this philosophical tradition…
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Hegel’s Hellenic Ideal
J. Glenn Gray’s Hegel’s Hellenic Ideal is a study of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s engagement with the cultural, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions of ancient Greek civilization and its indelible impact on his thought. Published initially in 1941, this work has become a landmark in the field of German idealism, elucidating how Hegel’s perception of Greek…
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Kant and the Faculty of Feeling
Kant and the Faculty of Feeling is a landmark analysis of one of the most enigmatic and underexplored dimensions of Kant’s critical philosophy: the faculty of feeling. For centuries, scholars have explored Kant’s faculties of cognition and desire, often side-lining feeling as a residual category, dismissed as mere affectivity unworthy of systematic investigation. This volume…
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The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work
The The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work by Jason Read is an investigation into the entangled realities of labour, ideology, and political economy as experienced within the structures of late capitalism. At the intersection of Spinozist philosophy and Marxist critique, Read presents a variety of thought that transcends conventional disciplinary…
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‘The Metaphysics of German Idealism’ by Martin Heidegger
The Metaphysics of German Idealism by Martin Heidegger is an unflinching engagement with the central metaphysical concerns of German Idealism. Anchored in an exhaustive and revelatory dialogue with Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s seminal 1809 Freedom Treatise, this text embodies both a penetrating critique of the historical limits of metaphysics and a bold pivot toward the…
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Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the “Phenomenology of Spirit”
The extraordinaryIntroduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojève, with contributions of Raymond Queneau, Allan Bloom, and James H. Nichols, occupies a singular place in the intellectual history of the twentieth century. It serves as an expansive engagement with Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit which combines rigorous philosophical exegesis…
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On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative
On Hegel: The Sway of the Negative by Karin de Boer is a presentation of Hegel’s philosophical system, offering a transformative engagement with his legacy through the prism of tragedy, negativity, and dialectics. In this exhaustive study lies an analysis of Hegel’s Science of Logic, through which de Boer unpacks the latent tensions and contradictions…
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‘Hegel’s Political Philosophy’ by Walter Arnold Kaufmann
In Hegel’s Political Philosophy, this curated and intellectually rigorous volume, edited by Walter Arnold Kaufmann, serves as both a forensic examination and a historical dissection of one of the most enigmatic figures in Western thought. Kaufmann navigates the complexities of Hegelian political theory, presenting an unsparing analysis that not only introduces readers to Hegel’s ideas…
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Walter Kaufmann: Discovering the Mind | Volume Two: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Buber
In the second volume of his monumental trilogy, Discovering the Mind, Walter Kaufmann deepens his incisive exploration of human self-understanding by focusing on the psychological and philosophical contributions of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber. This volume is not merely a continuation but an expansion of a quest that seeks to illuminate the development…
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Walter Kaufmann: Discovering the Mind | Volume One: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel
Walter Kaufmann’s Discovering the Mind (Volume One: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel) is an ambitious exploration of intellectual history through the vivid psychologies, ideas, and personalities of three titanic figures who indelibly shaped the discourse of the human mind. With characteristic rigor, Kaufmann casts aside staid interpretations, offering instead a provocative and penetrating reevaluation of Goethe’s…
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From Shakespeare to Existentialism
Walter A. Kaufmann’s From Shakespeare to Existentialism is a masterwork of intellectual exploration, charting a constellation of Western thought that spans literature, philosophy, and the crises of modernity. First published in 1959, this volume brings into sharp focus Kaufmann’s unique philosophical temperament—a confluence of rigorous analysis, historical consciousness, and Nietzschean skepticism. The book unfolds as…
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The Young Hegel: Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics
Georg Lukács’ The Young Hegel: Studies in the Relations between Dialectics and Economics, translated by Rodney Livingstone, is an indispensable philosophical investigation into the formative period of Hegel’s thought. This monumental work, first completed in 1938, is a rigorous and detailed analysis of Hegel’s intellectual trajectory and its far-reaching influence on Marxist theory. It situates…
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Hegel and the French Revolution: Essays on the Philosophy of Right
Joachim Ritter’s Hegel and the French Revolution is an analysis of Hegel’s political philosophy, a work that dissects the contours of modernity through the lens of Hegel’s thought. These essays, originally part of Metaphysik und Politik, are a demonstration of philosophical clarity and historical sensitivity, addressing the relationship between Hegel’s speculative concepts and the socio-political…
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Leo Strauss on Hegel
Leo Strauss on Hegel, edited by Paul Franco, is best approached as a carefully prepared aperture onto Strauss’s most sustained confrontation with Hegelian philosophy, one in which the familiar antitheses of ancient and modern, reason and history, faith and politics, are pressed to their limits within the concrete discipline of a seminar that reads Hegel’s…
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Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History
In Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ground of History, Michael Allen Gillespie offers a key examination of the philosophical underpinnings of the concept of history, engaging with the seminal works of Hegel and Heidegger to explore the most fundamental and often elusive questions about human existence, freedom, and the trajectory of civilization. This is an expansive…
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‘Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit ’ by Martin Heidegger
In Martin Heidegger’s 1930-1931 lecture course on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, we encounter not merely a reading of Hegel, but an intense and fundamental engagement with the very movement of thinking that animates Hegel’s dialectic. Heidegger, whose own philosophical project aimed to dismantle and reconstruct the history of ontology through the lens of temporality, delivers…
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Hegel and Speculative Realism
In Hegel and Speculative Realism, Charles William Johns undertakes an ambitious philosophical endeavor that traverses the vast conceptual landscapes of speculative realism and Hegelian philosophy, probing the limits of metaphysical thought in contemporary discourse. The book pursues two central objectives: first, to interrogate speculative realism’s conceptualizations of the “real”—a reality withdrawn, contingent, and infused with…
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Rethinking the Arts after Hegel: From Architecture to Motion Pictures
In Rethinking the Arts after Hegel: From Architecture to Motion Pictures, Richard Dien Winfield delivers nothing short of a magnum opus on the aesthetics of the individual arts, grounded in Hegelian principles yet transcending their limitations with philosophical rigor. Winfield reimagines the systematic architecture of Hegel’s Aesthetics, preserving its revolutionary insight into art’s mediation of…
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The Absolute and the Event: Schelling after Heidegger
The Absolute and the Event: Schelling after Heidegger by Emilio Carlo Corriero undertakes a philosophical investigation into the enigmatic connections between the concept of the Event (das Ereignis) in Heidegger’s later thought and Schelling’s speculative philosophy of the Absolute. At its core, this work wrestles with the question of how Heidegger’s post-metaphysical conception of the…
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Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute
Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute by Benjamin Norris is a rigorous philosophical excavation of the intersection between Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling’s transcendental and speculative idealism and Baruch Spinoza’s rationalist metaphysics. This work reconstructs Schelling’s engagement with Spinoza’s substance monism to illuminate the persistent philosophical tensions between realism and idealism that animate Schelling’s…
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Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity
Brady Bowman’s Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity delivers a rigorous examination of the very essence of Hegelian philosophy, offering a study of Hegel’s doctrine of absolute negativity and the Concept (der Begriff) as the pivotal elements that animate his dialectical system. These doctrines are not only Hegel’s most original contributions but also the…
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Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 is a landmark of political and philosophical thought, a profound investigation into the essence of capitalism—its mechanisms, its historical emergence, and its world-shaping consequences. This definitive new edition, translated by Paul Reitter, with editorial insights from Paul North, a foreword by renowned political theorist Wendy Brown,…
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Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique
William F. Bristow’s Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique offers an analysis of the epistemological confrontation between Hegel and Kant, one that defines one of the most consequential moments in the history of modern European philosophy. In this rigorous study, Bristow examines Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit as a bold response to, and transformation of,…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Universal Reconciliation: Logic as Form of the World
Hegel’s Philosophy of Universal Reconciliation: Logic as Form of the World by Stephen Theron represents a culmination of a presentation of Hegel’s theology and metaphysics, positioned as the final entry in a series dedicated to Hegel as theologian. This series, inaugurated with New Hegelian Essays (2012) and developed through From Narrative to Necessity (2012) and…
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The Dialectical Method: A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote
Clark Butler’s The Dialectical Method: A Treatise Hegel Never Wrote constitutes an ironically reasoned, deeply scholarly, and conceptually ambitious effort to elucidate, systematize, and formalize the elusive essence of Hegel’s dialectical method. At once keenly analytic and historically aware, Butler’s work seeks to fill a conspicuous lacuna in Hegel’s oeuvre, wherein the German philosopher never…
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‘Civilization and Its Discontents’ by Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents, translated by David McLintock, is of Sigmund Freud’s most well-known and troubling meditations on the precarious balance between the individual psyche and the communal demands of modern society. In this pivotal work, first published in 1930, Freud considers the vast historical struggle that has led human beings into forms of collective…
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Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson offers a deeply layered, contextualized, and philosophical analysis of a historical encounter that still reverberates through contemporary intellectual landscapes. Within its pages, readers are confronted with the dynamics between a revolutionary upheaval in late 1970s Iran—one charged…
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The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters
In Slavoj Žižek’s The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters, the reader is immediately drawn into a staggeringly complex, exhaustively intricate, and conceptually vertiginous philosophical essay that seeks to re-locate Schelling—so often overshadowed by the towering figures of Kant and Hegel—at the very center of a tradition stretching from the ancient materialists, through Marx,…
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‘Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking’ by Martin Heidegger
Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking by Martin Heidegger shows the unceasing flow of philosophical questioning, the subtle folding of language and thought, and the daring confrontation with the concealed essence of what we too readily call reality. This volume, composed of two crucial lecture series delivered in the aftermath of…
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Hegel and Theology
In Hegel and Theology, Martin J. De Nys offers a philosophically charged reading of the complex relation between Hegel’s philosophy of religion and the contemporary theological imagination, a meditation that demands a careful and extended reflection on the proper place and function of religious thought in a world shaped by both the Enlightenment’s critical legacy…
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Hegel and Ancient Philosophy: A Re-Examination
Glenn Alexander Magee’s Hegel and Ancient Philosophy: A Re-Examination is a scholarly endeavor that analyses the relationship between Hegel’s philosophy and ancient thought. This extensive volume gathers original essays from leading scholars who explore Hegel’s debts to ancient philosophers, as well as critically assess his interpretations, which are often as provocative as they are insightful.…
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G.W.F. Hegel: The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics
The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics” by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel presents his early philosophical development during his tenure at the University of Jena. This work, edited and translated by John W. Burbidge and George di Giovanni, offers invaluable insight into the evolution of Hegel’s thought, particularly regarding the nature of logic and its…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Science of Logic | George Di Giovanni Translation
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s The Science of Logic, in this Cambridge translation by George Di Giovanni, is a monumental work in the annals of Western philosophy, representing both the culmination of classical metaphysics and a crucial reconfiguration of philosophical thought. This comprehensive edition brings together the revised Book I from 1832, along with Books II…
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The Political Form of the Hegelian Concept: On the Influence of Spinoza’s Political Philosophy on Hegel’s Metaphysics
The international philosophical conference Between Substance & Subject. The Presence of Spinoza in Hegel, held from October 26 to 28, 2023, at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film, and Television (AGRFT) in Ljubljana, was a major scholarly event jointly organized by the University of Padua and the University of Ljubljana—Faculty of Arts and AGRFT. The…
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Essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
David S. Stern’s Essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit is a scholarly investigation into one of the least explored but one of the most intricate aspects of Hegelian thought: the Philosophy of Subjective Spirit. This volume, the first English-language collection of its kind, does not merely seek to resurrect a neglected area of Hegel’s…
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Heidegger’s Metaphysics: The Overturning of ‘Being and Time’
Aengus Daly’s Heidegger’s Metaphysics: The Overturning of ‘Being and Time’ is an analysis of the transitional phase in Martin Heidegger’s philosophical development, particularly in the late 1920s. Daly goes into the transformation of Heidegger’s seminal project in Being and Time into what the philosopher himself began to term the “metaphysics of Dasein.” This book is…
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The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur
Adam J. Graves’ The Phenomenology of Revelation in Heidegger, Marion, and Ricoeur is an analysis of one of the most provocative intersections in contemporary philosophy: the relationship between phenomenology and the concept of revelation. This work navigates the philosophical tensions, theological implications, and linguistic mediations that revelation imposes on phenomenological inquiry. Through a dialogue with…
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‘Phenomenology of Perception’ by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception is an original and densely argued investigation into the nature of human experience, challenging entrenched philosophical traditions and reshaping our understanding of perception, embodiment, and subjectivity. Published in 1945, this monumental work bridges phenomenology, existentialism, and psychology, emerging as a key text in twentieth-century philosophy. Merleau-Ponty navigates a middle course…
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Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit
Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, edited and introduced by Michael John Petry, spans three volumes exploring human experience, self-realization, and the dialectical development of spirit as outlined in this bilingual edition of the first part of Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Each volume unfolds Hegel’s philosophy of subjective spirit, tracing its progression toward self-knowledge…
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