The Resilience of Civilization

The Resilience of Civilization

The ebbing of this tragic war, while offering a measure of relief to Iran and to the wider world, brings into sharper focus enduring questions about the civilizational labour that underpins nation states and the imperative of preserving the order so arduously achieved over time. Civilizations do not disintegrate so long as the normative lifeworld that sustains them retains a degree of organic continuity. Their endurance rests not on coercion but…