The established forms of literary study were presumed to be rigid and authoritarian -- "logocentric" -- although for the most part they simply were not. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy and Literature] Reference
On the other hand, word-centered or "logocentric" art, like the novel, was stimulated by social and economic needs of Meiji and pre-War Japanese nationalism for a populace unified by a common written language. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Shelley's logocentric mind could no longer take up residence in it. From Wordnik.com. [Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology] Reference
The concept of expression that dominates the last pages of the text marks the strongly logocentric character of the 1813 version, which Schelling prepared for printing but then abandoned because, according to his son Karl Schelling, it "falls into utter falsehoods" at the end (W2 180n). From Wordnik.com. ['The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)] Reference
In texts in a digital environment, such interactivity is found through the use of hypertext, which, as Stuart Moulthrop puts it, is “the practical implementation of a conceptual movement that ... rejects authoritarian, ‘logocentric’ hierarchies of language ... and seeks instead systems of discourse that admit a plurality of meanings where the operative modes are hypothesis and interpretive play” (qtd. in Murray, 133). From Wordnik.com. [Games in Virtual Environments] Reference
Musil is not merely being logocentric here: he is too canny to suggest that meaning can only be communicated through written or spoken language. From Wordnik.com. [theatre notes] Reference
As author of its awn biography, the subject thus becomes the ideological fiction of modernity and its logocentric philosophy, one that depends upon the formation of hierarchical dualisms, which repress and deny the presence of the absent 'other'. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
Okay, I admit I don’t share his logocentric taste in gods, and I’m further away from Aristotelian realism than he is. From Wordnik.com. [¡Papeles para tod@s! 1 May 2009, 3:30 PM @ Commercial Center Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada] Reference
A) obviously, yours is a logocentric self Working the up/down, north/south binary, ‘you’ are the civilized north, while down south … the wild jungle!. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Shelley Had NO IDEA | Her Bad Mother] Reference
A) obviously, yours is a logocentric self :-) Working the up/down, north/south binary, 'you' are the civilized north, while down south ... the wild jungle!. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Shelley Had NO IDEA] Reference
Forget, then, the titles the subtitles, too, the tours, the cumbersome, unwieldy catalogue and other didactic, logocentric intrusions. From Wordnik.com. [James Scarborough: A Meta-Narrative for the "Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot For A Biennial," Sharjah, United Arab Emirates] Reference
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