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apotheosis

a playwright whose best works apotheosize the platitude

—p.115 Ionesco (115) by Susan Sontag
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tendentious

what a tendentious definition of reality she proposes

—p.109 Nathalie Sarraute and the novel (100) by Susan Sontag
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obstreperous

with his obstreperous irony

—p.106 Nathalie Sarraute and the novel (100) by Susan Sontag
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dialectic

Of all the philosophers in the Hegelian tradition (and I include Heidegger), Sartre is the man who has understood the dialectic between self and other in Hegel's Phenomenology in the most interesting and usable fashion.

—p.97 Sartre's Saint Genet (93) by Susan Sontag
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mutatis mutandis

Kafka is attacked by Lukács for the qualities which, mutatis mutandis, in the history of music, would have made him in Adorno's terms a "progressive"

—p.90 The literary criticism of Georg Lukács (82) by Susan Sontag
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