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Agonistically

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ag·o·nis·tic  (g-nstk) also ag·o·nis·ti·cal (-t-kl)
adj.
1. Striving to overcome in argument; combative.
2. Struggling to achieve effect; strained and contrived.
3. Of or relating to contests, originally those of the ancient Greeks.

ago·nisti·cal·ly adv.


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While the book thus explicitly sets itself against the political tenets or assumptions of New Historicism--sometimes agonistically so--one may be equally struck by its methodological commonalities with that critical mode, though Wilson might prefer to see this as an affiliation with cultural materialism.
While Origen was thinking in terms of a radicalized spirituality Agamben is meditating upon the possibility of an equally radical materiality, thus making him a post modern example of a secular paratheologian who reads agonistically.
LJ: One way to deal with the questions I mentioned earlier is to orient them, agonistically, around the figure of "the one who lacks.
 
 
 
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