Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @CostsOfWar

@CostsOfWar "Growing sections of humanity, not just isolated or exceptional individuals, are no longer representable inside the nation-state. The refugee...becomes instead the central figure of our political history, because he/she unhinges the trinity of state-nation-territory."

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Quoted by@joshua_craze @HSlim_Oxford @davidrieff 1/ Most astute, Joshua. Thank you. Curious if you or others can recommend any voices addressing 'imperialist paternalism' and all that the phenomenon implies, in terms of an all-embracing response to the substrative, generative, ontological challenge of the nation-state complex?Quoted by"America is the political and social experiment of modernity. The country is settled by a people drawn from all nations, and is hence the unique modern experiment in the universal representation of humanity. That makes this political experiment a messianic experiment." - Moltmann