Constitutive Relation Defined

Famous quotes containing the words constitutive, relation and/or defined:

“Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.”
—Michel Foucault (1926–1984)

“The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.”
—Patricia Meyer Spacks (b. 1929)