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The Notion of Authority inTales of the Metric System

The Notion of Authority inTales of the Metric System

Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa
Abstract
One of the writers mentioned in Imraan Coovadia’s novel, Tales of the Metric System (2014) is the Russian philosopher, Alexandre Kojève,1 who wrote the treatise, The Notion of Authority (which was directed at post-revolutionary Russia). In this essay I shall use the notion of authority, in various forms and understandings, as a pivot around which some important issues in the novel, Tales of the Metric System, may rotate.

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