Corbusier and modernism: the contradictions of a pharaonic organicism; authoritarian technocratic not democratic.
"Plato, we know, looked back with nostalgia at the immobile schemata of Egyptian art."
Gombrich
"A religion is a form of utopia: when it disappears, alternative utopias appear" Emmanuel Todd
"Charlie’s approach to politics contributed to a confusion of the mundane world of political discourse with the sphere of ultimate values."
Goldhammer
The idealism and authoritarianism, or moralizing Puritanism, of Plato and John Rawls.
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