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absolutize

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ab·so·lu·tize  (bs-l-tz)
tr.v. ab·so·lu·tized, ab·so·lu·tiz·ing, ab·so·lu·tiz·es
To make absolute; change into an absolute: absolutize a moral priniciple.


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My best take on this is that we need to acknowledge our differences, but we should not absolutize them.
He chose to absolutize the difference between reason and revelation, and thus to reduce revelation to a "brute fact" on an Islamic model, as Brague has elsewhere noticed.
In a book riddled with half-truths, this claim typically absolutizes what is historically contingent; but its "representation-as-containment" thesis is clearly a variant on the seminal Foucauldian/Greenblattian model of political containment operating through the appearance of subversion.
 
 
 
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