Modernity and its Futures Past : Recovering Unalienated Life

Acknowledgments
Contents
1: Introduction
	Bibliography
2: Nationalism and Its Other
	2.1	 The “Society of Perpetual Growth” and the Unreconciled Tension Between Universalistic and Particularistic Tendencies in Gellner’s Analysis
	2.2	 The “Imagined Community” and ‘Modularity’
	2.3	 The Critique of Modularity: The Division Between the ‘Spiritual’ ‘Inner’ World and the ‘Material’ ‘Outer’ World; and the Problem with This Division When Understood Non-Dialectically
	2.4	 Summary of Our Critical Arguments, and the Task Ahead: The Main Contours of the Problematic
	Bibliography
3: Genealogies of Modernity: Disenchantment and the Form of Unalienated Life
	3.1	 Gandhi, Marx, and the Critique of Modernity
	3.2	 The Emergence of the Alienated World-View in the Establishment of the Private Economy: Early Dissenters and Theoretical Critique
	3.3	 The Problem of History: Contingency, Necessity, and the Notion of Historicity
	3.4	 The Secular Reenchantment of Nature: Its Limits, and Rearticulation Through the Experience of Negativity
	Bibliography
4: Historicity, Negativity and Nature
	4.1	 Kant, Hegel and Negativity
	4.2	 “Force and Understanding”
	4.3	 Methodological Distinctions Between Kant and Husserl; and the Sense of ‘Crisis’
	4.4	 ‘Crisis’, Negativity and Historicity
	4.5	 Urstiftung, Nachstiftung, Endstiftung
	Bibliography
5: Heidegger’s Modernist Critique of Modernity: The Recovery of Negativity and Finitude
	5.1	 ‘Ontological Difference’, the Temporality of ‘Care’ and ‘Being-Towards–Death’
	5.2	 The Question of Metaphysics
	5.3	 The Question of Technology
	5.4	 The Question of the Environment
	Bibliography
6: The Impasse of the Political: Rethinking the Universal
	6.1	 Transition to the Political
	6.2	 The Possibility of Unalienated Existence in Relation to Historical Becoming: Evolutionary Versus Repetitive History
	6.3	 The ‘Other’ Vision of History: The Communal Form and Its Repetition in the Asiatic, Ancient and Germanic Modes of Production
	6.4	 The Problem of the ‘Asiatic Mode’ and the Possibility of Evolutionary History
	6.5	 Marx’s Analysis of the Commodity Form as a Critique of ‘Presence’
	6.6	 The Generalization of Commodity Fetishism in the Money Commodity: Circulation, Temporality, and the Proliferation of Symbols
	6.7	 How Marx ‘Invented the Symptom’: Alienation and Therapeutic Response
	Bibliography
7: Dialectics and the Universal in Process
	7.1	 On the Possibility of Proletarian ‘Universal’ Class Consciousness
	7.2	 The Generalization of the Commodity Form and the Reification Inherent in It: Lukács and the Possibility of Proletarian Class Consciousness
	7.3	 Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, and the Political
	Bibliography
8: Unalienated Life and Negative Dialectics
	8.1	 The Realization of Unalienated Life in Post-Capitalist Society: Political-Economic Relations
	8.2	 The Realization of Unalienated Life in Post-Capitalist Society: The Ethical Basis of Political-Economic Relations
	8.3	 The Realization of Unalienated Existence in Post-Capitalist Society: The Relation to ‘Nature’
	8.4	 The Extension of Ethical Considerations Beyond the Human: Non-Anthropocentrism Without the Reduction to Naïve Positivism
	8.5	 The Emancipatory Promise of Enlightened Modernity and Its Distortion in a ‘Determinate Negation’
	8.6	 Negative Dialectics as the Problem of Maintaining ‘Determinacy Without Affirmation’: The Form/Content of Freedom in Noncoercive Identity/Equality
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Index