Quote of the day
On English universalism and German ethnonarcissism
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In the 1930s, German particularism was striving for its own recognition on the international stage. In pursuit of this national goal, the German jurist Carl Schmitt deconstructed the English particularism lurking behind Britain’s professed universalism, analogous to the way in which 20th-century American counter-cultures deconstructed the putative universalism of America’s civil religion: