Most important, as South Asian historian Ronald Inden relates, for empiricists and rationalists that role was "the unchangeable" and /or "the absolutely different" (and therefore inscrutable and dominatable), and, for romantics, the "spiritual or ideal" Other.
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By transposing Gianni Vattimo's philosophical concept of "transparency" onto the Italian Futurist movement, the author detects the Futurists' attempts to construct a "transparent woman," one who would be totally penetrable and dominatable.
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The modern ontology, since the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment, is an idea of the world as a knowable, controllable, dominatable place.
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