Modernity and its Futures Past: Recovering Unalienated Life

Patnaik, Nishad

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-11-21

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031321061

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32107-8

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 524.0