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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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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.
Whenever one makes an opinion of others and absolutizes it, then one stops seeing the person as a flowing being.
He goes on to say that, whether a person absolutizes one's own ego or another person, "the origin, essence, and goal of responsible life is denied in both cases, and responsibility [itself] has become a self-made, abstract idol.
 
 
 
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