reificatory

Adjective

reificatory (not comparable)

1. That reifies.
   • For one, the reification of cultural identities can be a political necessity in the pursuit of equal rights: precisely because the reificatory discourse is the dominant one in the politics of representation, both political and mediatic, it is a useful resource in challenging established...2002, Heidrun Friese, Aleida Assmann, Identities: Time, Difference, and Boundaries, →ISBN, page 190
   • His conceptualization eschews some crucial normative and epistemological distinctions between various forms or modalities of translation, especially between stronger and weaker ones (or reificatory and non-reificatory ones) and, in doing so, impairs our ability to evaluate them, viz. of choosing...2003, Dick Pels, Unhastening Science, →ISBN