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- Dictionarypeculiarity/pɪˌkjuːlɪˈarɪti/
noun
- 1. a strange or unusual feature or habit: "for all his peculiarities, she finds him quite endearing" Similar
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8 jam yang lalu · We have seen that it seeks to lead the privatizing, addicted, society-suffering novel reader of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries back from the isolation of private waking dreams to sociality. For the novel utopias of this period, too, the individual’s turning away from society is the symptom of a disease.
8 jam yang lalu · This branch of science fiction proves to be a descendant of the utopian state novel, which now becomes a critical utopia in the guise of technical fiction insofar as it takes criticism and the negation of reality into fiction: it seems to have become impossible to present a purified counter-image to reality.
8 jam yang lalu · The openness of the symbol, founded in the ambivalence of analogous, pictorial, symbolic communication, thus proves to be the condition for the possibility of the symbol’s permanent structure and mediating function. The complex semantics of the symbol shows precisely that striving for mediation, which must be seen as an attempt at compromise ...
8 jam yang lalu · This chapter provides a collection of problems with detailed solutions that deal with adversarial risk and strong conflicts, such as military problems, i.e., the analysis of armed conflicts, and counterterrorism.
