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The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age

This book delves into the challenges faced by contemporary societies in maintaining a sense of collective identity and responsibility. It examines the historical and cultural factors contributing to the fragmentation of citizenship and proposes strategies for restoring a strong sense of community and participation. more

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Mark Kingwell
Mark Kingwell

Mark Kingwell, born on March 1, 1963, is an esteemed professor known for his extensive research and influence in the fields of philosophy, cultural theory, and environmental ethics. His work spans aesthetics, political philosophy, and ecological ethics, and he has taught at several renowned universities, including the University of Toronto and McGill University. more

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“It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.”

“These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.”