Does emancipation devour its children? Beyond a stalled dialectic of emancipation.
Critical social theory
Foucault
emancipation
judgement
late modernity
Journal
European journal of social theory
ISSN: 1461-7137
Titre abrégé: Eur J Soc Theory
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9918351287706676
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
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Résumé
Emancipation serves not only as a midwife for progressive agendas such as greater equality and sustainability but also as their gravedigger. This diagnosis underpins Ingolfur Blühdorn's 'dialectic of emancipation', which depicts a dilemma but offers no perspective on how to deal with it. By drawing on Foucault, this article suggests conceiving of emancipation as a task moderns are confronted with
Identifiants
pubmed: 35250357
doi: 10.1177/13684310211028382
pii: 10.1177_13684310211028382
pmc: PMC8887923
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
172-188Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2021.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Références
Nature. 2009 Sep 24;461(7263):472-5
pubmed: 19779433