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Paperback Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves Book

ISBN: 1915672228

ISBN13: 9781915672223

Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves

The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation?

In Embracing Alienation, Todd McGowan offers a completely different take on alienation, claiming that the effort to overcome it is not a radical response to the current state of things but a failure to see the constitutive power of alienation for all of us. Instead of trying to overcome alienation and accede...

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