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vitiate

these do not vitiate his entire later critical work

—p.89 The literary criticism of Georg Lukács (82) by Susan Sontag
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Hegelian

Modern thought is pledged to a kind of applied Hegelianism: seeking its Self in its Other.

—p.69 The anthropologist as hero (69) by Susan Sontag
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bulwark

a profound sense of sexual inadequacy, which he bulwarked by all sorts of theories about sexual technique

—p.44 The artist as exemplary sufferer (39) by Susan Sontag
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tendentious

consciousness--what used to be called, rather tendentiously, the faculty of contemplation

—p.29 On style (15) by Susan Sontag
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dross

any particular morality has its dross, those elements which are no more than a defense of limited social interests and class values

—p.25 On style (15) by Susan Sontag
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