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Excerpt from Thresholds, 2002 The autonomy of an artifact with respect to its possible uses signifies the self-sufficiency of its essence, according to Schwarz. Although the object finds its justification inter nally, it maintains a direct relationship to the world. How are these two sides of its being related? Schwarz intro duces a pair of opposing properties which refer to the contemplative, lnnerlichkeit, and the relational. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.