Against eurocentrism : a transcendent critique of modernist science, society, and morals : a discursus on human emancipation : purporting to be a speculative critique and resolution of the malaise of modernism

This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities. Kanth argues that while modernism is possessed of some virtues, they are purchased at far too high a cost - indeed a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, he further suggests that no other posture is at all ecologically responsible. Kanth suggests, breaking with the manifold paradigms of European expansionism or find ourselves, soon enough, living on a planet damaged beyond recovery.
This work renders an uncompromising verdict on the scourge of our millennium: i.e. modernism, itself the artefact of certain Late Eurocentric propensities. It argues that, whilst modernism is possessed of some virtues and benignities, they are purchased at far too high a cost-indeed, a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. More urgently, the author holds that modernism imperils the existence of all species and the mother of all hospitalities, viz., the planet itself. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, as portrayed in the work, he further suggests that no other posture is at all, in the highest sense, ecologically responsible. We must, stated simply, he claims, break with the manifold paradigms of the European Enlightenment or find ourselves, soon enough, as mutant beings occupying an alien habitat.
This book goes far beyond the usual genre of critique by actually offering salves and antidotes to the enduring malaise of our times. It also offers a new paradigm for the human sciences locating it firmly in the species being of our hominid natures thereby annulling the spurious distinctions between "nature-culture", et.al. drawn by the European enlightenment. In particular, the book points to the "paradigm of femininity" as the potential agent of a very real, and realizable (and realized) emancipation from the delusive "utopias" of European, masculinist paternity. Finally, the book entreats us to re-evaluate our real placement in an evolving, self-fulfilling universe.
This work renders an uncompromising verdict on the scourge of our millennium: i.e. modernism, itself the artifact of certain Late Eurocentric propensities. It argues that, whilst modernism is possessed of some virtues and benignities, they are purchased at far too high a cost-indeed, a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. More urgently, the author holds that modernism imperils the existence of all species and the mother of all hospitalities, viz., the planet itself. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, as portrayed in the work, he further suggests that no other posture is at all, in the highest sense, ecologically responsible. We must, stated simply, he claims, break with the manifold paradigms of the European Enlightenment or find ourselves, soon enough, as mutant beings occupying an alien habitat.This book goes far beyond the usual genre of critique by actually offering salves and antidotes to the enduring malaise of our times. It also offers a new paradigm for the human sciences locating it firmly in the species being of our hominid natures thereby annulling the spurious distinctions between "nature-culture," et al. drawn by the European Enlightenment. In particular, the book points to the "paradigm of femininity" as the potential agent of a very real, and realizable (and realized) emancipation from the delusive "utopias" of European, masculinist paternity. Finally, the book entreats us to re-evaluate our real placement in an evolving, self-fulfilling universe. This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the scourge of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities. Kanth argues that while modernism is possessed of some virtues, they are purchased at far too high a cost--indeed a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, he further suggests that no other posture is at all ecologically responsible. We must, Kanth suggests, break with the manifold paradigms of the European Enlightenment or find ourselves, soon enough, living on a planet damaged beyond recovery This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities. Kanth argues that while modernism is possessed of some virtues, they are purchased at far too high a cost--indeed a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, he further suggests that no other posture is at all ecologically responsible. We must, Kanth suggests, break with the manifold paradigms of European expansionism or find ourselves, soon enough, livi Cover 1 Half-Title 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 8 Contents 10 Acknowledgments 12 Preamble 14 I. The Modernist Revolutions: The Ascent of Europe 16 1. The Modernist Problematic: The Crossing of the Rubicon 17 2. The Utopian Impulse: Mnemonics of Affective Society 58 II. Against Modernism: [Therapeutics, Salves, and Antidotes to the Modernist Distemper] 96 3. The Fatal Conceit: Elisions of Materialism 97 4. On Human Emancipation: The Archaeology of Discontent 106 Epilogue 164 Works Alluded To 166 Index 171 Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Modernist Problematic: The Crossing of the Rubicon....Pages 3-43 The Utopian Impulse: Mnemonics of Affective Society....Pages 45-82 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 The Fatal Conceit: Elisions of Materialism....Pages 85-93 On Human Emancipation: The Archaeology of Discontent....Pages 95-152 Epilogue....Pages 153-154 Back Matter....Pages 155-171 How it all originated, how could we possibly know, other than taking stealthy recourse to the old standbys of conjecture, inference, and attribution?