Terry Eagleton - It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem....

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It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

Terry Eagleton

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Es ist leicht einzusehen, warum eine Vielfalt von Kulturen die Macht mit einem Problem konfrontieren sollte. Wenn es bei Kultur um Pluralität geht, geht es bei Macht um Einheit. Wie kann es sich gleichzeitig an eine Vielzahl von Lebensformen verkaufen, ohne tödlich verdünnt zu werden?

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