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
Historique:
entrez: 7 3 2022
pubmed: 8 3 2022
medline: 8 3 2022
Statut: ppublish

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
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

172-188

Informations 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

Auteurs

Margaret Haderer (M)

Institute for Social Change and Sustainability (IGN), WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria.

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