
50 Years after Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination"
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Value of Paraphrastic Duplication
I was a non-native German speaker. My German then was by no means fluent. It still is needed serious help at times. And so it was a process really of trying to make sense of what was often highly difficult, obscure and to a certain extent impenetrable ideas. I see Dominic's position as a kind of dialectical one with my own not an oppositional one. Now in the long run it turned out that it was far more difficult to apply the ideas than some of these new leftists in the 1960s had hoped. So this is not to say that I was vindicated but that we all recognize that sometimes ideas need to be understood to no longer have quite the
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