Modernity and its futures past : recovering unalienated life

By:

Patnaik, Nishad

Material type: Text

9783031321061

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

301 PAT-M

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Nationalism and Its Other 3. Genealogies of Modernity: Disenchantment and the Form of Unalienated Life 4. Historicity, Negativity and Nature 5. Heidegger’s Modernist Critique of Modernity: The Recovery of Negativity and Finitude 6. The Impasse of the Political: Rethinking the Universal 7. Dialectics and the Universal in Process 8. Unalienated Life and Negative Dialectics

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	IIITD Reference	Social Science	REF 301 PAT-M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		012641

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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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