idoneity
(en)
(noun) fitness; suitableness; adequacy
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the Church looks askance at excesses of zeal: the word for clerical normality, ‘idoneity’, designates the optimal point between necessary and excessive commitment
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the Church looks askance at excesses of zeal: the word for clerical normality, ‘idoneity’, designates the optimal point between necessary and excessive commitment
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fatum
(la)
I think this just means fate. Can also mean: utterance, declaration, proclamation, prediction
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as a fatum without a god
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as a fatum without a god
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immanence
(en)
philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world
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Figure of transcendence surreptitiously reintroduced in immanence
on the diff between Spinoza and Marx: value
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Figure of transcendence surreptitiously reintroduced in immanence
on the diff between Spinoza and Marx: value
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pronation
(en)
rotation of the hand and forearm so that the palm faces backwards or downwards
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extrinsic value of serving as bulwark against pronatory chaos
defined in footnote by translator (refering to the "naked attitude of the conatus as the gesture of grabbing something"). kind of a cool use of the word
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extrinsic value of serving as bulwark against pronatory chaos
defined in footnote by translator (refering to the "naked attitude of the conatus as the gesture of grabbing something"). kind of a cool use of the word
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bulwark
(en)
(noun) defensive wall
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extrinsic value of serving as bulwark against pronatory chaos
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extrinsic value of serving as bulwark against pronatory chaos
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Marxian
(en)
pertaining to Karl Marx and ideas he explicitly explored in his writings; differs from Marxist in that the latter includes ideas developed by others in the same vein of thought
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It is significant in any case that employees do not need to believe in the Marxian theory of surplus-value in order to feel exploited and engage in struggle.
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It is significant in any case that employees do not need to believe in the Marxian theory of surplus-value in order to feel exploited and engage in struggle.
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mandarin
(en)
(noun) historically, a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire OR a pedantic or elitist bureaucrat OR senior person of influence in academia or literary circles / (adj) deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist
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university mandarins sign their names to publications for which their assistants provided the statistics
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university mandarins sign their names to publications for which their assistants provided the statistics
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declension
(en)
(noun) a falling off or away; deterioration / (noun) descent slope
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as its own specific declension of bossing in general
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as its own specific declension of bossing in general
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biotope
(en)
(noun) a region uniform in environmental conditions and in its populations of animals and plants for which it is the habitat
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The fact remains that the existence of such scandalous biotopes of autonomy from the common law of employment is to some extent an homage vice pays to virtue
referring to "creatives" (artists, etc) who function somewhat outside capital, or at least outside the confines of the organisation
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The fact remains that the existence of such scandalous biotopes of autonomy from the common law of employment is to some extent an homage vice pays to virtue
referring to "creatives" (artists, etc) who function somewhat outside capital, or at least outside the confines of the organisation
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dialectic
(en)
a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments
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brings back a dialectical figure we had believed lost: that of capitalism’s self-transcendence out of its own contradictions
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brings back a dialectical figure we had believed lost: that of capitalism’s self-transcendence out of its own contradictions
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