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Catttt Posted 8 years ago
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Much has been made of ... that ...

Does the bold sentence imply " intellectual base that the McCoys established at the Academy was so important and significant that absorbed to itself a broad range of post-structuralist theory, from the political philosophy and cultural criticism of Jean Baudrillard to the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty"?


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Much has been made of the intellectual base that the McCoys established at the Academy that took in a broad range of post-structuralist theory, from the political philosophy and cultural criticism of Jean Baudrillard to the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In effect, the absorption of a range of theories that preached the uncertainty of universal truths and laid emphasis on the contiguity of the moment facilitated a paradigmatic
shift.

  

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red apple Much has been made of the intellectual base ... A significant amount of attention has been given to the intellectual base ... A significant amount of importance has been ascribed to the intellectual base ...

  • red apple Much has been made of the intellectual base ...
  • A significant amount of attention has been given to the intellectual base ...
  • A significant amount of importance has been ascribed to the intellectual base ...
  • I think that either of the paraphrases above is enough to paraphrase the whole sentence.
  • red apple that absorbed to itself a broad range I don't see that this is a necessary part of your paraphrase.
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red appleMuch has been made of the intellectual base ...

A significant amount of attention has been given to the intellectual base ...
A significant amount of importance has been ascribed to the intellectual base ...

I think that either of the paraphrases above is enough to paraphrase the whole sentence.

red applethat a

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