Modernity and its Futures Past

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Modernity and its Futures Past

Recovering Unalienated Life

Philosophy of mind Social and political philosophy

Author: Nishad Patnaik

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Collection: Religion and Philosophy

Language: English

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Published on: 20th November 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9783031321078


Reimagining Emancipatory Possibilities

The work reimagines emancipatory possibilities in the face of reified capitalist modernity. The enlightenment resulted in a disenchanted world, stripped of anthropomorphised meaning and purpose. This world, in its capitalistic figuration, alienates us from others, and from nature. To rearticulate emancipatory possibilities requires a non-alienated relation to society and nature. Yet, modernist disenchantment cannot be undone by returning to pre-modern enchantment. Rather, such rearticulation calls for the recovery of unalienated life from within non-reified modernity, by renewing its universalist dimension.

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