ABSTRACT
In closing, it is fitting to begin where the last classic presented in this volume left off. In the conclusion to Bounding Power, Deudney writes:
Traditions are composed of distant luminaries, great intellectual figures of the past whose works are perennially burning lights that can be observed but never changed. Acts of reading and interpreting assemble illuminating texts into various constellations by ‘connecting the dots’ into a simple pictoral constellation. 2
