discussion of the goals and destiny of human beings as such.’6 The resulting social order starts to look like a Hobbesian war of all against all, a chaotic rivalry between segregated interest groups, each ruthlessly brandishing its own rights and freedoms while the state is reduced to the role of suppressing open conflict by policing the borders of ‘difference.’ This amounts to a crisis in our social imagination: we find ourselves unable to imagine what it might really mean to live together. Margaret