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Dialectics of the Gods: Deleuze, Hillman, Jung, Schelling, and Hegel

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Helman's Deconstruction of Reality

I think there are actually a lot of similarities between Helman and Derrida in terms of their sense of clever word play. He reverses the privileging of literalism, of literal physical causality over fantasy imagination. What he says is that reality is metaphorical across scale which I think is really resonant with what Tari say about all signs being signs of science. In a very similar way to what Dileus and Lutari are doing, and Dileus by himself, Helman really wants to problematize this idea that we can attain a perfect, totalizing wholeness and reconciliation and oneness.

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