Modernity and Its Futures Past: Recovering Unalienated Life

By Nishad Patnaik

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031321065
• ISBN13: 9783031321061
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"