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Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 28 Mar 2024 04:47:43
Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves

Todd Mcgowan, "Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves"
English | ISBN: 1915672228 | 2024 | 206 pages | EPUB | 691 KB

The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation?

In Embracing Alienation, Todd McGowan offers a completely different take on alienation, claiming that the effort to overcome it is not a radical response to the current state of things but a failure to see the constitutive power of alienation for all of us. Instead of trying to overcome alienation and accede to an unalienated existence, it argues, we should instead redeem alienation as an existential and political program.

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