Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn't Try to Find Ourselves
Todd McGowan
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The left traditionally views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually be the key to our emancipation?
In Embracing Alienation, Todd McGowan challenges conventional thinking, proposing that the effort to overcome alienation—whether through therapy, political revolution, or ecological harmony—is not a truly radical response to the current state of the world. Instead, McGowan argues, alienation is a fundamental part of existence and should be embraced as a source of power. Rather than striving for an ideal unalienated state, this provocative work calls for a redemption of alienation itself as a new existential and political program.
McGowan explores how movements in therapy, politics, and ecology attempt to overcome alienation, and reveals how these efforts may miss the profound potential alienation holds for human freedom. Through a radical rethinking, Embracing Alienation offers a fresh perspective on how alienation can be transformed from a condition to be eradicated into a force for empowerment.
Ideal for readers interested in philosophy, existentialism, political theory, and radical social critique, Embracing Alienation provides a bold new take on one of the most essential concepts in modern thought.
About the Author: Todd McGowan teaches theory and film at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Enjoyment Right and Left, The Racist Fantasy, Universality and Identity Politics, Emancipation After Hegel, Only a Joke Can Save Us, and Capitalism and Desire, among other works. He is the cohost of the Why Theory podcast and coeditor of the Diaeresis series at Northwestern University Press with Slavoj Žižek and Adrian Johnston.
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