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The scene presents itself as the struggle of the individual as such to liberate himself from society as such and to claim his inherent or “natural” self-possessed and self-sufficing rights.
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John Dewey
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Editor's note · Context
Dewey critiques the notion of individuals striving to separate from society to assert their rights.
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