Author : Nishad Patnaik
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031321061
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Modernity and its Futures Past by : Nishad Patnaik
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.