The Embarrassment of Being Human

The Embarrassment of Being Human
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 405
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ISBN-10 : 9781040277195
ISBN-13 : 1040277195
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Book Synopsis The Embarrassment of Being Human by : Benjamin Boysen

Download or read book The Embarrassment of Being Human written by Benjamin Boysen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-12-24 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the message that everything in a sense is alive, thus allowing us to join forces with new politico-ethical communities stretching across human and nonhuman realms, the new materialisms have captivated the minds of many academics, artists, and intellectuals by stressing that it is time to return to a premodern mindset and discard modernity and its concepts of secularization, autonomy, and finitude. The Embarrassment of Being Human not only demonstrates how these magical materialisms are beset by grave theoretical and practical inconsistencies and self-contradictions. It also demonstrates how their demand for humans to step down and allow for an emancipation of things qualifies the new materialisms as a metaphysics of neoliberalism that reproduces and fortifies the self-contradictions rampant in the current neoliberal hegemony. While helping us to gain a comprehensive understanding of the tenets of the eerie ills of our epoch, the critique of the new materialisms can furthermore inspire us to appreciate how the exact inversion of the new materialist complex amounts to a revitalization of the modern project. A revitalization that is critical to think our epoch differently.


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