etiology
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(noun) cause, origin / (noun) the cause of a disease or abnormal condition / (noun) a branch of knowledge concerned with causes / (noun) a branch of medical science concerned with the causes and origins of diseases
Rancière proposes an aetiology of the degeneration to which politics is liable. It is sometimes transformed into ‘archi-politics’.
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