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The Descent of the Public

The Westphalian project and the fate of the Public

Venkatesh Rao
Aug 8, 2020
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Part of my After Westphalia series

The Westphalian moment in European history marked the culmination of what might be called the Greek project: the completion of the construction of a continent-scale consciousness in Europe that understood itself as the Enlightenment. It also marked the simultaneous birth of both the central European conceit and the cent…

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