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thaumaturgy

credulous believer in the thaumaturgical virtue of 'calling things by their names'

—p.106 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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peripety

specific contents of Baudelaire's poetry were directly reduced to economic peripeteia of the time

—p.104 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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lapidary

the psychologistic subjectivism and ahistorical romanticism which he believed he could see beneath the dense and lapidary brilliance of Benjamin's text

—p.102 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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camarilla

those who have appropriate the theoretical doctrines of Marx and taken over their management will always form a clerical camarilla

a theory of Brecht's lol

—p.94 Conversations with Brecht (86) by Walter Benjamin
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