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Lineages of the civilization state

Lineages of the civilization state

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Can one organize a state around a civilization? The question would have sounded exceedingly absurd to our ancestors. What else would you organize it around? The very word “civilization” was meant to express the state of political or social existence — as opposed to life in a more primitive or natural condition — and later the philosophical concept denot…

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