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Hokusai, Katsushika. Reflection in the Lake at Misaka in Kai Province. c. 1830–1835. Woodblock print (ukiyo-e); ink and color on paper, 25.7 cm × 37.5 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Ricoeur Le Conflit des interpretations The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in Hermeneutics

"The philosopher trained in the school of Descartes knows that things are doubtful... but he does not doubt that consciousness is such as it appears to itself... Since Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, this is what is in question. After the doubt about things, we have started to doubt consciousness."

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Grevel, Jan-Heiner. "A Sense of Place in Emptiness: Ad Reinhardt’s ‘small black cross painting.’"

Merton, Thomas Faith and Violence (1968)

"Violence rests on the assumption that the enemy and I are entirely different: the enemy is evil and I am good. The enemy must be destroyed but I must be saved. But love sees things differently. It sees that even the enemy suffers from the same sorrows and limitations that I do."

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Read more about the article Derrida, Jacques. La voix et le phénomène: Introduction au problème du signe dans la phénoménologie de Husserl
Duchamp, Marcel. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (Nu descendant un escalier n° 2). 1912. Oil on canvas, 147 × 89.2 cm (57 7/8 × 35 1/8 in.). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia. Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, accession no. 1950-134-59.

Derrida, Jacques. La voix et le phénomène: Introduction au problème du signe dans la phénoménologie de Husserl

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