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autarkic

it leads to advocating ‘autarchic’ solutions, which consist in ‘delinking’ the economies of the periphery from the world market and pursuing ‘auto-centred’ economic development

on center-periphery logic over class conflict-logiv

—p.145 Capitalisms Old and New (139) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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protean

Author of a protean oeuvre, in which reference to theology plays a key role, Agamben is influenced by thinkers such as Heidegger

—p.134 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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trenchant

One of Wang Hui’s most trenchant analyses is of the Tiananmen Square events

—p.132 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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teleological

From a more general point of view, the New Left condemns the reigning fetishism of growth and the teleology of ‘modernization’ in China and their disastrous social and ecological effects

—p.130 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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aporia

Any individual who is the citizen of a member-state is a European citizen. The problem is that this definition creates an aporia at the ‘aggregate’ level, which leads to the pejoration of the condition of foreigners within the Union

—p.126 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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