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weltanschauung

Marxism is indeed not a political philosophy of the weltanschauung variety, and in no way "on all fours" with conservation, liberalism, radicalism, populism, or whatever

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—p.265 ECONOMICS: Postmodernism and the Market (260) by Fredric Jameson
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deictic

in other linguistics this particularizing function is taken over by the virtually wordless operation of the deictic -- the "this" or "that," the pointing at the otherwise ineffable specificity of the unique object in the here and now)

—p.228 THEORY: Immanence and Nominalism in Postmodern Theoretical Discourse (181) by Fredric Jameson
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peremptory

triumphantly dispatches it into the past more adequately than the doomed, gallant, vain, peremptory Faulknerian evocation of what has long since vanished

—p.145 SENTENCES: Reading and the Division of Labor (131) by Fredric Jameson
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coterminous

if all the constitutive features of Postmodernism were identical with and coterminous to those of an older modernism

—p.5 CULTURE: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1) by Fredric Jameson
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Procrustean

In tying the case at bar to the Procrustean bed of Murray as refined by further pruning at the hands of this court

—p.357 by William Gaddis
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