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That such a monadic view of human nature ignores even the destructive side of man's sociability--seen, for example, in men's instinct to form into mutually antagonistic clans such as those causing so much violence and unrest in Iraq--seems to escape Berns. Reading challenges these perspectives permitting one a glance at the monadic character of one's former orientation. Like the latter's gaze into the abyss, Baraka's poem carries out a symbolic destruction and ritual purification both of an idealized yet decrepit tradition and of the monadic self situated within. |
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