Modernity and its futures past :

Patnaik, Nishad

Modernity and its futures past : recovering unalienated life by Nishad Patnaik. - Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2023 - xii, 524 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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

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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Social sciences
Sociology & anthropology
Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
Alienation (Social psychology)

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