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The capacity to imagine with other people, produced through poetry and self-understanding, that Jiang treats as a condition for civilization.
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shared imagination
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Because it speaks to you. Okay? Do you understand? So when Homer is going around, because this is an illiterate culture, right? There's no..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Because it speaks to you. Okay? Do you understand? So when Homer is going around, because this is an illiterate culture, right? There's no..."
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"Because it speaks to you. Okay? Do you understand? So when Homer is going around, because this is an illiterate culture, right? There's no..."
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"...about people. He's not writing. He's singing about people of his imagination that are part of the Greek cultural landscape. Okay? Does that make..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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