Altarity

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Noun
  1. 1
    Otherness exalted as if a religious concept. uncountable

    "In his deconstruction of the modern subject via the thought of altarity, Taylor relies on the critique of Hegel developed in twentieth-century France..."

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"In his deconstruction of the modern subject via the thought of altarity, Taylor relies on the critique of Hegel developed in twentieth-century France..."

Etymology

Coined by Mark C. Taylor in Altarity (1987), from altar and alterity.

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