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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So the path to knowledge is through constant experimentation, exploration, transgression. And if you do so, you are fighting evil because this world that..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "So the path to knowledge is through constant experimentation, exploration, transgression. And if you do so, you are fighting evil because this world that..."
Jiang generalizes from Frank's writings to a broader theory of Europe and modernity: a Faustian ethos of endless experimentation, accumulation, conquest, and self-overcoming is one expression of Frankist spirit.
"So the path to knowledge is through constant experimentation, exploration, transgression. And if you do so, you are fighting evil because this world that..."
The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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