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&Quot;The Founding Of Nations&Quot; By Wilfred M. Mcclay

The Founding
of Nations
Wilfred M. McClay
Did the United States really have a beginning
that can be called its "Founding"? Can any
society, for that matter, be said to have a
founding moment in its past that ought to be regarded
as a source of guidance and support?
Much of the intellectual culture of our time stands
resolutely opposed to the idea of a founding as a unique
moment in secular time that has a certain magisterial
authority over what comes after it. The cult of ancestors,
in its many forms, is always one of the chief
objects of modernity's deconstructive energies. Kant's
famous...

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