Meaning of dereify | Babel Free

Definitions

To cause no longer to be a single coherent entity; to cease to treat as a recognizable object.

transitive

Examples

“That is, although the insurrectionary consciousness of Antiguan workers is not identical with its African counterpart, it, too, is unable to dereify the social totality and reveal society as a collectively manageable entity.”

“[Hayek] seeks to dereify society as nothing more than individuals and seeks the dethronement of society so that markets and morals may resume their pure and rightful place. However, the state is neither the source nor the enforcer of morality-…”

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