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aleatory

completely displacing the question by inventing the ‘aleatory materialism’ of his last texts

—p.xv Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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aporetic

incorporating in the knowledge process, in a reflexive but open or even aporetic fashion, the very conflictuality that it sought to explain

—p.xiv Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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teleological

the family complex constituted by the teleologies of historical progress in the bourgeois era

—p.xiii Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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philologist

As will be apparent, the style is that not of an ‘introduction’, but of a semi-philological, semi-philosophical discussion

—p.ix Preface (ix) by Étienne Balibar
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bancor

The key role played by this new international central bank – the ICU – would be to manage flows of money between states, and to use a new currency, bancor, as the relevant currency. (In other words, a neutral currency, not the currency of one imperial power.)

—p.150 Subordinating Finance, Restoring Democracy (131) by Ann Pettifor
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