From Frederic Jameson's "Foreword: In the Mirror of Alternate Modernities," from de Bary's edition of Karatani Kojin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature:
Levi-Strauss's attractive nostalgia, rooted in the experience of and commitment to "cold" or tribal societies, evokes an aleatory moment, an effect of chance, of the recombination of
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