The prevailing Western paradigm is modernity: a model focused on
individual liberty, secularism, and the scientific control of nature.
This worldview emerged from the break with the medieval and classical
past and advanced a philosophy in which the solitary mind opposes the
rest of the world. Although there is a simple appeal in this binary
structure, history has shown that it is neither socially nor
politically innocuous.
In _Freedom and Solidarity_, noted political theorist and humanist
Fred Dallmayr seeks to bridge the gap between the self and the outside
world. Drawing on new scholarship and his work with the World Public
Forum Dialogue of Civilizations, a global, nongovernmental
organization of distinguished thinkers, he challenges dominant
worldviews and heralds new possibilities for political thought and
practice. Dallmayr argues that while we need not reject all the values
of modernity, it is imperative that we resist the simplifications
inherent in dualism and fundamentally reassess the notions of freedom
and solidarity.
Engaging a breathtaking array of influential thinkers, including
Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi,
Albert Camus, John Dewey, and Dimitry Likhachev, Dallmayr explores the
possibility of a transition from the modern paradigm—a mode of life
presently in decay—toward a new beginning in which freedom and
solidarity can be reconciled, making it possible for humanity to
flourish on a global scale.
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ISBN
9780813165806
Publisert
2015
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The University Press of Kentucky
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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