exordium
(en)
(noun) a beginning or introduction especially to a discourse or composition
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sententia
(en)
a brief moral saying taken from ancient or popular or other sources, often quoted without context; as an adjective, means either given to aphoristic expression, or just referring to an aphoristic expression. or: 'in a way that tries to sound important or intelligent, especially by expressing moral judgements'
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the place of a sententious injunction that always feigns to speak like the just
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the place of a sententious injunction that always feigns to speak like the just
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eschatology
(en)
the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
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the eschatological themes of the "end of history," of the "end of Marxism," of the "end of philosophy," of the "ends of man," of the "last man" and so forth
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the eschatological themes of the "end of history," of the "end of Marxism," of the "end of philosophy," of the "ends of man," of the "last man" and so forth
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codicil
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(noun) a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will / (noun) appendix supplement
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the canon of the modern apocalypse (end of History, end of Man, end of Philosophy, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, with their Kojevian codicil and the codicils of Kojève himself)
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the canon of the modern apocalypse (end of History, end of Man, end of Philosophy, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, with their Kojevian codicil and the codicils of Kojève himself)
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expiate
(en)
atone for (guilt or sin)
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what he curses in his mission is this expiation of expiation itself
Hamlet (who else)
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what he curses in his mission is this expiation of expiation itself
Hamlet (who else)
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exegesis
(en)
(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text
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muffle the political imperative in the untroubled exegesis of a classified work
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muffle the political imperative in the untroubled exegesis of a classified work
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crepuscular
(en)
(adj) of, resembling, or relating to twilight
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a funerary note already echoed there--crepuscular, spectral, and therefore resurrectional
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a funerary note already echoed there--crepuscular, spectral, and therefore resurrectional
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eschatology
(en)
the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
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We must discern here between eschatology and teleology, even if the stakes of such a difference risk constantly being effaced in the most fragile and slight insubstantiality
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We must discern here between eschatology and teleology, even if the stakes of such a difference risk constantly being effaced in the most fragile and slight insubstantiality
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lacuna
(en)
an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)
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This not-knowing is not a lacuna.
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This not-knowing is not a lacuna.
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bifid
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(adjective) divided into two equal lobes or parts by a median cleft
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confessing his perjury in a same and single bifid gesture
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confessing his perjury in a same and single bifid gesture
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