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)

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

“Instead of seeing society as a collection of clearly defined “interest groups,” society must be reconceptualized as a complex network of groups of interacting individuals whose membership and communication patterns are seldom confined to one such group alone.”
—Diana Crane (b. 1933)