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This thinker is read through Lacan and Derrida as arguing that chaos inheres in order in the book Remembering and Repeating by Regina Schwartz. An essay by this thinker describes a kind of pluralism by imagining the “sad friends” of “the virgin Truth” seeking the “thousand pieces” of her body like Isis gathering the limbs of Osiris. A book usually attributed to this thinker defends polygamy, denies the Trinity, and shares its name with Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine. This thinker defended regicide in the book (*) Eikonoklastes, published in response to Eikon Basilike. This thinker argued that conscience should be free to seek truth without “inquisitional” state regulation in a work that declares, “who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a book (10[1])kills reason (10[1])itself.” For 10 points, name this author who attacked pre-publication censorship in Areopagitica. (10[1])■END■

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