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methodology that provided a critique of and corrective for the universalizing tendencies of Enlightenment reason, negative realism can be read as a response to the authoritarian logic of Western realism, a way of looking at the dominant mechanism of realism from a reverse angle. Though apparently far
details of common experience (Borus 1989: 21, 14). The compilation of facts about the external world set the bases for the formulation of laws; the concrete and the verifiable—the material world as opposed to the abstract—“constituted” reality. “Only through conscientious adherence to a methodology
methodology, and his 281 Michael York assumption that the Vedic Aryans were the proto-Indo-Europeans . Though perhaps now entering its twilight period in the United States, the current fashion in Indo-European Studies is George Dumezil's tripartite functionalism. Influenced by Durkheim's contention that
of a ‘disease of language’ as a biased concept, Müller’s exclusive use of linguistic methodology, and his Michael York 282 assumption that the Vedic Aryans were the proto-Indo-Europeans. Though perhaps now entering its twilight period in the United States, the current fashion in Indo
images that Tocqueville left floating. For Poirier to remain unaware of such a large contribution to Baudrillard’s work seems a grave, if deft, oversight. Tocqueville is relieved of such scrutiny perhaps because he did not presume to bear the same methodological burden as Baudrillard. Though both
- nothing remains but to fall back on the ideational content" (65). Freud recognizes the fact that something defies his methodology, metanarrative, and own illusory inner-space; he is able to assault upon the oceanic indirectly by equating it with the ills of organized religion and, denotatively, the
to fall back on the ideational content” (65). Freud recognizes the fact that something defies his methodology, metanarrative, and own illusory inner-space; he is able to assault upon the oceanic indirectly by equating it with the ills of organized religion and, denotatively, the emerging Nazi
because he did not presume to bear the same methodological burden as Baudrillard. Though both pursued a vision of the future in America, Tocqueville went to America to examine a new social form, and Baudrillard went to experience a predetermined social theory. In a very literal sense, Baudrillard is
and literary critics such as Michel Foucault and Fredric Jameson have shown an increasing concern with space and place. In "Cognitive Mapping" Jameson calls for a methodology for reading literary discourse that studies the power relations that condition different perceptions of space. In Discipline