Term
Explanation
used in 67 texts across the archive
“But if the sacred is identical to the significant, then any explanation is, knowingly or not, simply further inquiry into and commentary on the sacred center, and hence dependent on it.”
In use
“And the libertarian explanation is… well, other than some vague references to our having forgotten our principles, it doesn’t seem to me they really have one—which would be why someone like Ron Paul exceeds even the most fevered Leftists in his conspiracy-mongering.”
“It seems to me that the best explanation is the alliance of the new, vulnerable, but potentially revolutionary market order with the absolutist state—the imperial state, in other words, which is really nothing more than a permanently asymmetrical gift relationship (is there anything more “given” for us today than the state?).”
““Explains” lets us know more implicitly that an explanation is coming.”