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Historical judgment focuses attention on phenomena from which we must above all abstract ourselves if we want to understand what this new society bor… - Alexander Zinoviev
" "Historical judgment focuses attention on phenomena from which we must above all abstract ourselves if we want to understand what this new society born in a given historical context really is. The historical process is also, of course, a reality, but it is a reality which disappears into the past. The new society which has matured within him quickly got rid of a historical covering which encumbered it and had become foreign to him. It constitutes another historical environment more in keeping with its nature. Sociological reality is designed to remain. She is looking to the future. p. 41
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About Alexander Zinoviev
Aleksandr Zinovyev (29 September 1922 – 10 May 2006) was a Russian philosopher, sociologist and writer
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Александр Александрович Зиновьев
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Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev
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