Modernity and its Futures Past
Author | : Nishad Patnaik |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 3031321065 |
ISBN-13 | : 9783031321061 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Download or read book Modernity and its Futures Past written by Nishad Patnaik and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.