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what has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an i and you…what has to be given up is not the i, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.
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Margulies, H. (2017). Notes on Spinoza and Weil. In: Will and Grace. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-197-1_24
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