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BEING·IN·THE·WORLDS OF 1926 477 authenticity, whereas opting for the simultaneity between authenticity and artificiality (that is, "life") was a choice preferred by and associated with American intellectuals. Positionality produces position-specific expectations and (more important, and despite these expectations) the possibility of mutual understanding, because, within a field, one can always at least imagine those options which, due to one's specific positionality, one is not likely to choose. Positionality within a field, then, has to do with probabilities of choice and attribution; it never imposes itself as an absolute constraint. Thus, Heidegger could develop and cultivate, as a vision of horror, his ideas about life in the big city, whereas Carl Van Vechten would probably not have been astonished to learn that some philosophers in Germany preached an almost religious belief in the authenticity of peasant ways of life. Third, and as a consequence of positionality's being a matter of probability, the boundaries of historical fields are vague. For example, even if one excluded Shanghai from the Western culture of 1926, there were strong cultural and communications links between Shanghai and the world of New York. Paris, in contrast, was the center of the prevailing mental map of the West-but its culture was, if one may say so, "less central" and more limited in options than that of New York or Berlin. Finally, I wish to emphasize one more time that, although positionality generates profiles of likely choice and creates vague boundaries, the complete set of options that define a field is potentially available at every point within this field. For the people living in 1926, these options were, as Heidegger says, "ready-to-hand," meaning that they were always already in use-and only rarely the objects of reflection. For example, some people would have considered authenticity the highest value of human existence, while others would have hated authenticity-but scarcely anyone would have spoken about authenticity and artificiality as a binary opposition or a cultural code. The ability to notice and conceptualize such oppositions and codes comes with distance: it belongs to that being-in-the-world which Heidegger calls the "present-at-hand." I have tried, in this book, to make arrays, codes, and code breakdowns from 1926 present-at-hand again, so that these elements, especially by evoking the idea or even the desire for the ready-to-hand, could suggest the illusion of living in 1926. Yet the present-at-hand excludes the possibility of ever really using what is made intellectually available. Thus, while I certainly cannot prevent readers from wishing to opt for authen-
478 FRAMES ticity, like Heidegger and Blunck, or from wishing to reject, for example, Van Vechten's concept of life (which is based on the simultaneity of the authentic and the artificial), my book of course does not advocate any particular attitude toward authenticity-or toward any other value. It is with this measure of self-clarification that I wish to conclude my essay on historical simultaneity. The work has evoked, at least for me, pleasant and sometimes uncanny effects of presence. Yet these effects inevitably belong to the present-at-hand, and thus do not create the illusion that one ever could or should live through 1926 again.
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In 1926
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Copyright © 1997 by the President
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CONTENTS User's Manual • IX Array
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User's Manual Where to Start Do not
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USER'S MANUAL xi implication. A his
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USER'S MANUAL xiii change in retros
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USER'S MANUAL xv philosophy" (the u
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AIRPLANES Airplanes look stout, rat
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AIRPLANES 5 the expert hands of Cas
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AIRPLANES 7 (Franco, 286). Since Fr
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AIRPLANES 9 for him because he is j
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AIRPLANES 11 Ramon Franco, De Palos
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AMERICANS IN PARIS 13 sion, to unde
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AMERICANS IN PARIS 15 precisely to
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AMERICANS IN PARIS 17 to pay for hi
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AMERICANS IN PARIS 19 am convinced
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References AMERICANS IN PARIS 21 8
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ASSEMBLY LINES 23 of labor-among in
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ASSEMBLY LINES 2S jamin expresses a
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AUTOMOBILES 27 because it looks lik
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AUTOMOBILES 29 Alluding to the pres
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AUTOMOBILES 31 for the huge apparat
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AUTOMOBILES 33 Thomas Mann, "Unordn
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BARS 35 But if Babe Ruth himself is
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BARS 37 tion like grammars. As if b
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BARS 39 into the sunlight and the h
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BARS 41 Lawrence S. Ritter and Mark
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BOXING 43 uses yet another boxing m
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BOXING 45 Chicago Tribune slanders
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BOXING 47 Harry Wills, the "Brown P
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BOXING 49 emplary record as a soldi
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BOXING 51 jealousy, but defeat make
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BOXING 53 Flaschenpost ins Eismeer
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BULLFIGHTING 55 danas." Despite Kes
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BULLFIGHTING 57 the famous toreador
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BULLFIGHTING 59 erotic desire: "The
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BULLFIGHTING 61 Action = Impotence
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CREMATION 63 phasize individuality.
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CREMATION 65 Individuality vs. Coll
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DANCING 67 Karl Gustav Vollmiiller.
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DANCING 69 Fascination with rhythm
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DANCING slowly around the floor, ob
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DANCING 73 seriousness of Ausdrucks
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ELEVATORS Three days before the cha
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ELEVATORS 77 "pater nosters"-has se
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References ELEVATORS 8 Uhr-Abendbla
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EMPLOYEES 81 obsession-with the con
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EMPLOYEES 83 roles, as is the case
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EMPLOYEES 85 anonymous underlings,
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ENDURANCE On Saturday, August 7, ni
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ENDURANCE 89 themselves against the
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ENDURANCE 91 hand, to the emergence
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ENGINEERS The first page of Walter
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ENGINEERS 95 more seriously than te
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ENGINEERS 97 against the modern spi
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ENGINEERS 99 "social engineering" m
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ENGINEERS 101 Gustav Stresemann, "S
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GOMINA 103 never loses its strong a
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GOMINA lOS industry transubstantiat
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GOMINA 107 Nicola Lepp, "Leclermyth
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GRAMOPHONES 109 gramophone makes pr
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GRAMOPHONES 111 duet GARDEL-RAZZANO
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GRAMOPHONES 113 Lessing, who is com
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HUNGER ARTISTS In his poem "Der Hun
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HUNGER ARTISTS 117 cline, hunger ar
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HUNGER ARTISTS 119 exciting spectac
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JAZZ 121 Tunney, who is famous for
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JAZZ 123 sake. Our age seeks art no
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JAZZ 125 John Fordham, Jazz: Histor
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS 127 land, and Spa
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LEAGUE OF NATIONS 129 Rhineland, wh
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References LEAGUE OF NATIONS 8 Uhr-
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MOUNTAINEERING 133 the form of a te
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MOUNTAINEERING 135 (106). This iron
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MOUNTAINEERING 137 beating triumpha
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MOUNTAINEERING 139 berger: "How wou
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MOVIE PALACES In downtown Buenos Ai
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MOVIE PALACES 143 shorts, which is
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MOVIE PALACES 145 sional world of f
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MOVIE PALACES 147 right kind of nou
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MUMMIES Early in the year, the smal
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MUMMIES 151 the past had reached th
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MUMMIES 153 vades the street life o
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MURDER On Sunday, August 8, the Ber
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MURDER 157 of the criminal, now red
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MURDER 159 it is based on a single
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MURDER 161 peatedly infringe on con
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MURDER 163 thesis of individuality
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OCEAN LINERS 165 I will confess to
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OCEAN LINERS 167 From the perspecti
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OCEAN LINERS 169 successful commerc
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OCEAN LINERS 171 couldn't understan
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POLARITIES 173 Periphery (Infinitud
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POLARITIES 175 did you find that po
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RAI LROADS The world of railroads i
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RAILROADS 179 as an emblem of rando
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RAILROADS 181 into the impulse to m
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RAILROADS 183 coextensive with the
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REPORTERS In its June 26 issue, the
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REPORTERS 187 (Kittler, 317), and a
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REPORTERS 189 Germany, and the Unit
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REVUES Wherever the French writer P
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REVUES 193 Moulin Rouge, featuring
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REVUES 195 thing [das Echteste]. Sh
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REVUES 197 Marcel Denise, "Les merv
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ROOF GARDENS 199 is the city. The c
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ROOF GARDENS 201 reached the stage
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SIX-DAY RACES In the Berliner Volks
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SIX-DAY RACES 205 day environment (
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STARS The promotional flier of Chri
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STARS 209 as a symptom of cultural
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STARS 211 remain clouded by unhappi
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STARS 213 striking inability to liv
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STARS 215 Hollywood than from Berli
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STRIKES British Trade Union Congres
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STRIKES 219 the government, whose d
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STRIKES 221 between Baldwin and Cha
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STRIKES 223 As if this were contrar
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TELEPHONES The student yearbook of
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TELEPHONES 227 Although in the Unit
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TELEPHONES 229 go to the castle wit
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TELEPHONES 231 workers' city.' Fred
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TIMEPIECES All kinds of timepieces
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TIMEPIECES 235 Death has instructed
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TIMEPIECES 237 structure, continuit
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TIMEPIECES 239 ognizable to him and
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WIRELESS COMMUNICATION An illustrat
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WIRELESS COMMUNICATION 243 that the
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WIRELESS COMMUNICATION 245 strategy
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WIRELESS COMMUNICATION 247 Toledo o
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ACTION VS. IMPOTENCE In Hemingway's
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ACTION VS. IMPOTENCE 259 such words
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ACTION VS. IMPOTENCE 261 T. E. Lawr
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AUTHENTICITY VS. ARTIFICIALITY 263
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AUTHENTICITY VS. ARTIFICIALITY An i
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CENTER VS. PERIPHERY 273 of artific
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CENTER VS. PERIPHERY 275 tric posit
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CENTER VS. PERIPHERY 277 Educationa
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CENTER VS. PERIPHERY 279 Germany an
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IMMANENCE VS. TRANSCENDENCE Often,
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IMMANENCE VS. TRANSCENDENCE 285 Imm
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IMMANENCE VS. TRANSCENDENCE 287 nen
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IMMANENCE VS. TRANSCENDENCE 289 ion
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IMMANENCE VS. TRANSCENDENCE 291 the
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INDIVIDUALITY VS. COLLECTIVITY Indi
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MALE VS. FEMALE Heinrich Mann rathe
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MALE VS. FEMALE 30S scension: "Thos
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MALE VS. FEMALE 307 specific situat
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MALE VS. FEMALE 309 the same binary
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PRESENT VS. PAST 313 more convincin
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PRESENT VS. PAST 315 something has
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PRESENT VS. PAST 317 have become gr
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PRESENT VS. PAST 319 (1926). In Ant
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SILENCE VS. NOISE 321 that true sex
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SILENCE VS. NOISE 323 maintain abso
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SILENCE VS. NOISE 327 light enters
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SOBRIETY VS. EXUBERANCE Philosophic
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SOBRIETY VS. EXUBERANCE 331 has beg
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SOBRIETY VS. EXUBERANCE 333 bobbed
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SOBRIETY VS. EXUBERANCE 33S Walter
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UNCERTAINTY VS. REALITY 337 loss ("
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UNCERTAINTY VS. REALITY 339 no time
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UNCERTAINTY VS. REALITY 341 is seen
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UNCERTAINTY VS. REALITY 345 fession
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UNCERTAINTY VS. REALITY 347 only ba
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AUTHENTICITY = ARTIFICIALITY (LIFE)
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362 CODES COLLAPSED as irresistible
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CENTER = PERIPHERY (INFINITUDE) The
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376 CODES COLLAPSED after his Death
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378 CODES COLLAPSED If it's just on
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382 CODES COLLAPSED Agatha Christie
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384 CODES COLLAPSED the Italian nat
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MALE = FEMALE (GENDER TROUBLE) The
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402 CODES COLLAPSED Wave the blood-
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404 CODES COLLAPSED Every freedom c
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406 CODES COLLAPSED raphy of the ci
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FRAMES
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412 FRAMES "learning" and "using" j
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414 FRAMES "historical" induction f
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416 FRAMES tions." If neohistorians
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418 FRAMES to underlie all the chan
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420 FRAMES environments-ranging fro
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422 FRAMES standing. What turned in
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424 FRAMES thought has confronted f
Page 443 and 444: 426 FRAMES of hermeneutics and subj
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Page 449 and 450: 432 FRAMES tions into an (illusory
Page 451 and 452: 434 FRAMES worlds in their environm
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Page 455 and 456: 438 FRAMES able faculty my most pro
Page 457 and 458: 440 FRAMES on June 18, again urging
Page 459 and 460: 442 FRAMES The Year in the Book The
Page 461 and 462: 444 FRAMES Epistemological Losses a
Page 463 and 464: 446 FRAMES Being-just-present-at-ha
Page 465 and 466: 448 FRAMES tricity and distance tha
Page 467 and 468: 450 FRAMES Heidegger provides no ar
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Page 471 and 472: 454 FRAMES More demanding than the
Page 473 and 474: 456 FRAMES its Un-heim-lichkeit-not
Page 475 and 476: 458 FRAMES fessor of pedagogy. A fr
Page 477 and 478: 460 FRAMES the philosophy of histor
Page 479 and 480: 462 FRAMES literature of 1926 (from
Page 481 and 482: 464 FRAMES and past deconstruct the
Page 483 and 484: 466 FRAMES before Heidegger. He men
Page 485 and 486: 468 FRAMES cable binary logic, this
Page 487 and 488: 470 FRAMES But the king remained si
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Page 498 and 499: NOTES After Learning from History 1
Page 500 and 501: NOTES TO PAGES 420-424 483 Museum (
Page 502 and 503: NOTES TO PAGES 434-437 485 41. See,
Page 504 and 505: NOTES TO PAGES 439-441 487 noch zu
Page 506 and 507: NOTES TO PAGES 444-446 489 much mor
Page 508 and 509: NOTES TO PAGES 449-453 491 cura; se
Page 510 and 511: NOTES TO PAGES 456-460 493 70. An e
Page 512 and 513: NOTES TO PAGES 463-465 495 'zeitlic
Page 514 and 515: NOTES TO PAGES 469-470 497 fahren,
Page 516 and 517: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THANKS to Ulla Link
Page 518 and 519: Alcantara Machado, Antonio de, 288,
Page 520 and 521: Hauptmann, Gerhart: Dorothea Angerm
Page 522: Sieburg, Friedrich, 99; "Adoration
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