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Our turn-of-the-century world has been greatly influenced by secular tendencies which have both circumscribed and reconfigured the range of options we experience as available to us. Questions which imply alterations in our more traditional understanding of the human situation confront us at every turn. For example: Has politics become a world-religion and have political theory and economics become forms of its theology? And, if so: What are some of the historical factors that have led us to these circumstances? What opportunities are now opened (or left open) to us and which are foreclosed?
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Erickson, S.A. (1999). Power, Law, and The Accumulated Present. In: The (Coming) Age of Thresholding. Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9271-0_2
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