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what can be "postmodern" about these hoary nightmare images, except for the depolitization to which they invite us, is less clear
endowed with elaborate and supple casuistries, which can have no great appeal in an age that despises hermeneutics as such and has little need for casuistry.
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a religious modernism offers the spectacle of a theological hermeneutic of great refinement
A careful reading of the Manifesto, however, suggests a somewhat different way of thinking about Marx's view of capitalism as a stage, for it can be grasped as a kind of enormous black box or "vanishing mediator,"