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What is Seduction? | Jean Baudrillard | Keyword

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Seduction Operates at Another Level

In order to remain true to the logic of seduction, that is the idea of opposing ideas kind of gravitating toward one another, bouncing off each other and so on, what we have here is established an idea about appearances as being a constitetive factor of seduction. In order to be really with this logic, we must oppose this with its opposite, which would be universality, things that don't just lend themselves to appearances. So in this arrangement, we now have a new split. We have a split between a new opposition, a new dialectic, if you will, between one idea, that is biology, truth, unchanging universals, versus appearance, which is

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