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  • adjective Of or pertaining to logocentrism

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logo- +‎ centric

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  • The established forms of literary study were presumed to be rigid and authoritarian -- "logocentric" -- although for the most part they simply were not.

    Philosophy and Literature 2009

  • On the other hand, word-centered or "logocentric" art, like the novel, was stimulated by social and economic needs of Meiji and pre-War Japanese nationalism for a populace unified by a common written language.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • On the other hand, word-centered or "logocentric" art, like the novel, was stimulated by social and economic needs of Meiji and pre-War Japanese nationalism for a populace unified by a common written language.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • Shelley's logocentric mind could no longer take up residence in it.

    Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology 2008

  • The concept of expression that dominates the last pages of the text marks the strongly logocentric character of the 1813 version, which Schelling prepared for printing but then abandoned because, according to his son Karl Schelling, it "falls into utter falsehoods" at the end (W2 180n).

    'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

  • What Hopkins wanted more than anything else was to write for the greater glory of God, a logocentric rather than a phallocentric vision as your misogynistic and virulently anti-Catholic "reviewer" would have it.

    'The Poet & the Wreck': An Exchange Ford, Mark 2009

  • In texts in a digital environment, such interactivity is found through the use of hypertext, which, as Stuart Moulthrop puts it, is “the practical implementation of a conceptual movement that ... rejects authoritarian, ‘logocentric’ hierarchies of language ... and seeks instead systems of discourse that admit a plurality of meanings where the operative modes are hypothesis and interpretive play” (qtd. in Murray, 133).

    Games in Virtual Environments 2005

  • As author of its awn biography, the subject thus becomes the ideological fiction of modernity and its logocentric philosophy, one that depends upon the formation of hierarchical dualisms, which repress and deny the presence of the absent 'other'.

    LearnHub Activities 2009

  • As author of its awn biography, the subject thus becomes the ideological fiction of modernity and its logocentric philosophy, one that depends upon the formation of hierarchical dualisms, which repress and deny the presence of the absent 'other'.

    LearnHub Activities 2009

  • As author of its awn biography, the subject thus becomes the ideological fiction of modernity and its logocentric philosophy, one that depends upon the formation of hierarchical dualisms, which repress and deny the presence of the absent 'other'.

    LearnHub Activities 2009

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