Leviathan state

In a short but remarkable discourse on Hebrew mining, Job states that Iron is taken out of the earth (Job 28, 2). This passage describes the deep shaft, the dark galleries and tunnels through the rock, the underground streams, the beautiful, precious minerals, and the rugged, hazardous life of the miners. The iron stylus mentioned in Job 19, 24 was one of the most ancient of writing instruments. Iron fishhooks and spears must also have been in use when this book was written Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook . . . Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons or his head with fish spears (Job 41,1, 7). 

How do we explain this difference from the fate of empires in Europe It was the task of nationalism to invent the new nation-states for the post-1945 world, but was this nationalism a different beast altogether from that of Europe Could we imagine nationalism in Europe sanctifying the multi-ethnic borders created by the Hapsburgs, Romanovs and Ottomans, as we do in Asia for the empires of British, Dutch, Spanish, French and Manchus If Asian nation-states were to perform this transformation from the immense variety and antiquity of their ethnic, political and civilisational forms, without fragmenting the leviathans of imperial construction, they would require a kind of magic—the imperial alchemy of my title. The base metal of empire would have to be transmuted into the gold of nationhood. 

See T. S. Szasz, Toward the therapeutic state, New Republic, December 11, 1965, pp. 26-29 Justice in the therapeutic state [1970], in The Theology of Medicine, pp. 118-133 Therapeutic tyranny, Omni, March 1980, p. 43 Building the therapeutic state, Contemporary Psychology, 27 297 (April), 1982 The Therapeutic State (1984) The therapeutic state is a modern Leviathan, Wall Street Journal Europe, January 11, 1994, p. 9 Diagnosis in the therapeutic state, Liberty, 7 25-28 (September), 1994 Idleness and lawlessness in the therapeutic state, Society, 32 30-35 (May/June), 1995 Routine neonatal circumcision Symbol of the birth of the therapeutic state, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 21 137—148, 1996. 

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