logocentrism
noun
a method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context.
logocentric
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a word derived from
logocentrism.
Example Sentences
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Despite the important role that visual art plays in the West, in a broader religious and cultural sense Western society is typically understood to be logocentric: it privileges the word over the image.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2015
Free association liberates us from the canon, and contradiction fires weapons against the logocentric mind.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 9, 2015
