Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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ousia

"[...] ousia taken as oikos, everyday household life, house and hearth"

quoting someone referring to Heidegger's views on Aristotle's definition of ousia

—p.43 Come to Work (33) by Jeffrey Severs
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hew

the way this state was historically hewn out of the wilderness

—p.42 Come to Work (33) by Jeffrey Severs
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preterite

built over centuries a secular infrastruture predicated on damning the preterite

—p.39 Come to Work (33) by Jeffrey Severs
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Rabelaisian

Broom thus offers a bracingly Rabelaisian account of a postmodern capitalism

—p.37 Come to Work (33) by Jeffrey Severs
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primogeniture

If families practice primogeniture, passing wealth on each time to a single member of the next generation (typically the oldest son), then the total would be unaffected.

—p.158 Capital Shared (155) by Anthony B. Atkinson
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