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relationship between ontology and the political (Catlaw 2007a; Howe 2006). e
Collaborative Tradition is grounded in an altogether dierent ontological position
than that of Liberalism (Stout 2012a). Some call for a new humanistic civic ideol-
ogy or civic religion that will open up democracy (Farmer 2005a). “Perhaps our
sorest lack is doctrine in the theological sense to govern the ow of cooperative
energies in a free commonwealth” (Morstein Marx 1946, 503). Others suggest we
must create “a reconguration of consciousness, one that produces a new and dif-
ferent sense of subjectivity” (McSwite 1997a, 14). is is ...