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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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lubricious

It’s as though deindustrialisation and desublimated sexuality are engaged in some hard-faced, glumly raunchy, lubricious lambada across the workplace carpet tiles.

—p.311 Part VI: The 1960s (301) by Stuart Jeffries
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plebiscite

Habermas argued that the protests were against ‘the statesmen ruling in our name’ and called for a plebiscite on the army being equipped with nuclear weapons

—p.298 Part V: The 1950s (259) by Stuart Jeffries
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vicissitudes

as though love were a full comprehensive insurance policy that could protect both parties from the vicissitudes of the real world of loss and disappointment

Fromm writing about marriage (after his wife died)

—p.295 Part V: The 1950s (259) by Stuart Jeffries
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telos

For Habermas, the inherent aim or telos of language was to reach understanding and bring about consensus

—p.268 Part V: The 1950s (259) by Stuart Jeffries
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immanence

how the culture industry could be aberrantly, even rebelliously, decoded by its mass consumers and that popular sub-cultures might subvert the culture industry in a form of immanent critique

on Adorno's refusal to see popular culture as anything other than an affirmation (as opposed to a resistance)

—p.231 Part IV: The 1940s (209) by Stuart Jeffries
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