ABSTRACT
Three purposes have driven this book. I have described four ethoses, as permanent features of the human cultural landscape and as building blocks of an ordered society. I have traced how those ethoses have clashed in modern times, leading to the lamentable outcome ofan atomist-dominated globe. And I have mapped out the deep pathologies of atomist culture and argued that it needs challenging on the broadest scale. This chapter and the conclusion will draw these three strand together and build on them. I start by reviewing what we have covered, and highlighting what modern world history shows us about atomism's strength, its points of vulnerability, and the lessons that earlier challengers can teach us today.then I plot out how we might think about a postliberal world order and the paths leading to it.
