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In response to the problem of European unity, all that is offered are banalities: it is the humanist values, or the shadowy prefigurations of modern Europe's commitment to human rights, that unite the member states (1:xx).
Well, you can disagree with him about that if you like, but maybe any disagreement will be settled by reading the Malcolm Bowie essay that follows, which characterises the "world of promises, prefigurations and echoes" that we enter when considering any great artwork, the beholder rediscovering the time-axis of his own preferences and also those of the original artist, that in turn adumbrate future creations.
Thomas Harrison notes that, like Heidegger, Pirandello often presents "life as a struggle within and against the prefigurations of experience passed down by history" (10).
 
 
 
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