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Introduction

The end of history came to a sudden end in September 2001. The terrorist attacks, fuelled by apocalyptic fantasies, aspired to bring modernity to a conclusion in the fire of a sacred rage. In fact, however, they achieved just the opposite: instead of ending history, they reinvigorated it, establishing a new, defining conflict, reconfiguring friends and enemies, and reawakening memories of values worth defending. Thousands of individual lives came to an end in those attacks. No collective good outweighs those losses, but a process was set in motion that reaffirms, ultimately, the value of individual life over such collectivist obsessions....