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The new pathological analysis of death consolidated the separateness of Man’s body from nature and infused him with an intra-corporal life. Yet the fertility of death was not yet done. Death had constructed the end of life; it was now turn to discover its beginning.
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© 2002 David Armstrong
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Armstrong, D. (2002). Discovering Origins. In: A New History of Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403907028_4
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