The catastrophes of the twentieth century have decisively broken the grip of Aristotle's fixed universe on our minds. «Society» is no longer the logical category of statecraft that is to determine our lives. The glorious horrors of fascism discredited the survival of the fittest, upstaged even by the compulsory class equality of the Soviets. Instead we now appeal to «culture» and mutual «communication» as we hope to grow together in response to each other. The universe itself at last is...