Modernity and its Futures Past - Recovering Unalienated Life

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Nishad Patnaik is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India.

Product details

• Authors: Nishad Patnaik
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2023
• EAN: 9783031321061
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3132106-1
• No. of pages: 524
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 32 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: XII, 524 p. 1 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works