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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

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November 8, 2006

This is how many in the humanities understand the question of nature--in terms of the female body as nature and the primitive:

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Jan Saudek, Fate Descends towards the River Leading Two Innocent Children, 1970

The female body as biological is what is critiqued. If we are our biology then we need a complex and subtle account of that biology; one that avoids the reduction of the social and the cultural to the biological as routinely performed by sociobiology.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 10:46 PM |