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Thrones of the Invisible

My Journey Through the History of Divine Power to Find a Vision for a Better Tomorrow

Contents

  1. The Wound and the Wonder: Why I Had to Write This Book
  2. What Is Divine Power?
  3. Fire, Sky, and the First Altars: The Dawn of Divine Power
  4. Cities of God and King: Divine Power in the Ancient Civilizations
  5. The One Above All: The Birth of Monotheism and Universal Divine Power
  6. Virtue, Law, and the Rational Empire: Divine Power in Classical Antiquity
  7. The World as Cathedral: Medieval Divine Orders
  8. Broadening the Sacred Canopy: Other Sacred Worlds
  9. Breaking the Altars: Reformation and the Fracturing of Divine Authority
  10. Reason on the Throne: Enlightenment and the Rise of Secular Divine Power
  11. When Progress Became a God
  12. Experts Ascend: The Managerial State and Scientific Control
  13. Shattered Thrones: Why Elites Lost Power (1945–1975)
  14. The Economics of Hope: Keynes and Full Employment
  15. The Rights That Almost Were: Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights
  16. Manufacturing a Crisis: The 1970s and the Birth of Neoliberalism
  17. “We Can’t Afford It”: The Great Reversal of the Welfare Story
  18. Predict, Rank, Forget: Algorithms and the New Divine Order
  19. Politics Under Algorithmic Divine Power
  20. If the Lies Had Failed: An Alternative 21st Century
  21. From Soul to Citizen: The Birth of Mass Schooling
  22. The Science of Sorting Souls: IQ, Tests, and Early Eugenics
  23. The Gauss Curve in the Classroom: When a Shape Became Fate
  24. Social Darwinism with a Smile: From Survival of the Fittest to “Meritocracy”
  25. From Eugenics to Neoliberalism: The Age of the Self-Optimising Child
  26. The Self-Fulfilling Classroom: Expectations, Labels, and the Pygmalion Machine
  27. Data, Dashboards, and the New Priesthoods of Education
  28. Invisible Wounds: Mental Health, Diagnosis, and the Medicalisation of Struggle
  29. From Predictable to Visible: A New Way of Seeing Children
  30. Finland and Other Glimpses: When Trust, Equity, and Quality Walk Together
  31. Toward a Better Tomorrow
  32. The Power That Turns Inward
  33. The Vow in Practice

Thrones of the Invisible traces the long history of “divine power” — the invisible authority every age vests in something: gods, kings, reason, markets, algorithms, tests — and asks what it would take to take the thread back. Across 33 chapters it moves from the first altars to the digital pantheon, and from the classroom that wounds to a vision for a better tomorrow.

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