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(noun) a reversal of circumstances, or turning point; Anglicised form of the Greek "peripeteia"

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specific contents of Baudelaire's poetry were directly reduced to economic peripeteia of the time

—p.104 Presentation III (100) by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Fredric Jameson, György Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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it signifies the appearance of a new peripety

—p.77 Power and "Cool" (76) by Roland Barthes
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The peripeties themselves have the task of imprinting on the world a sort of elastic condition

—p.87 The Nautilus and the Bateau ivre (86) by Roland Barthes
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The final stage of the Pragmatist's Progress comes when one begins to see one's previous peripeties not as stages in the ascent toward Enlightenment, but simply as the contingent results of encounters with various books which happened to fall into one's hands.

whoa, this is good

—p.133 The Pragmatist's Progress: Umberto Eco on Interpretation (131) by Richard M. Rorty
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