Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@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?

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“History is not a blind alley. Beyond the mystery is meaning. And the meaning is destined to be disclosed. Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel
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Copy of tweet: “History is not a blind alley. Beyond the mystery is meaning. And the meaning is destined to be disclosed. Ultimately there is only one factor upon which the shape of history depends: the moral conduct of the nations." #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 14 Jun 2022

@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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