POLS 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Thomas Hobbes, Bathwater
27 Feb 2017
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Ferguson"s narrative of the war of the world is a narrative of terror and slaughter characterised by the great war and the second world war. Different peoples characterise it differently eg. the chinese as the anti japanese. War , the russians as the great patriotic war (bob) , or as the holocaust (hashoah) The cold war paradox and the weapons systems still with us as a result. Huntington"s narrative is an alternative rife with deep problems the clash of civilizations but had a considerable attraction in the united states. The world"s most important division is no longer the nation state but a number of civilizations. The fault lines between civilisations will be the battle lines of the future (huntington remaking world order) Civilization is not often thought of as plural, and is thought of as fundamentally a cultural entity. Commonalities of language, blood ties, the path to the divine, socio-cultural customs. Civilisations are seen as comprehensive the highest cultural grouping.
