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- not comparableRelating to a monologue.
A monological ethos can be conceived as an absence of communication, embodied within the media by its inability to directly challenge governmental policies […]
2004, Naomi Sakr, Women and Media in the Middle East: Power Through Self-expression, I.B.Tauris, →ISBN2 more examples
The claims of the universal monological subject often become obsessed with homogeneity, purity, and unity at the expense of those others who do not fit the master narrative of monological reason.
2002, Andrew Fiala, The Philosopher's Voice: Philosophy, Politics, and Language in the Nineteenth Century, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 13On the self-expression of an autonomous subject or the Ich, is dialectic, which is utterly monological. And yet, the monological discourse is the one wherein everything is in nuce already finalized in its very intention […]
2006, Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich Nikulin, On Dialogue, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 195
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