no longer Wagner as the poet of Teutonic mythology, of bombastic heroic grandeur
One is tempted here to use that old Levi-Straussian term ‘symbolic efficiency’: the appearance of égaliberté is a symbolic fiction which, as such, possesses an actual efficiency of its own.
not really sure what it means here tbh
Isn’t one of the topoi of Western liberalism the elevation of the Other as leading a life that is more harmonious, organic, less competitive, and aiming at cooperation rather than domination?
Marx’s analysis of the political imbroglio of the French Revolution of 1848 comes to mind.
The basic meaning of jihad in Islam is not war against the external enemy, but the effort of inner purification.
