(Bauman) Utopia and Reality
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Bauman delivers on a more useful definition of Utopia. A focus on the creative abilities of humans to choose from among multiple threads from now into the future. That we are not determined by our circumstance, at least not if we (humans) are thinking critically about it! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alec-mcgail/support
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The last chapter of Fromm's analysis of individuality of modern man. Fromm addresses the repressive nature of modern culture and socialization, pointing to helplessless, a lack of automony and freedom, to be fertile ground for authoritarianism, fascism. --- Support this podcast:...
Published 10/13/22
Published 10/13/22
This is epic. Love his trichotomy, and the discussion he concludes with. I.e. the emergence of the seemingly infinite from the infinitesimal, across all the natural and social sciences. Sounds like a call to the study of the heterogeneous and differentiated, outside the coordinated reduction of...
Published 12/05/21