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This chapter discusses a non-dialectical and inclusive approach to contradictions. Referring to the “One Divides into Two” controversy (一分为二), I argue for a messianic inclusivism engaged with the fundamental incompleteness of every fragment, narrative, and action in the world. The chapter puts forward the idea of “the horizon of the whole” as a prosthesis allowing maintaining a tension between openness and limitations, leading to an affirmative dimension of total mobilisation.
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Nawratek, K. (2019). ‘The Horizon of the Whole’ (Against Totalitarianism and Reductivism). In: Total Urban Mobilisation. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1093-5_6
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