Explanation of the book
It deals with the current crisis, and the questions regarding it, its components, paradoxes and contradictions. Its five chapters approach the modern state and the contradictions of its claims, and the repercussions of these contradictions on issues affecting political identities, especially human freedom. The author’s arguments are based on two central, interconnected hypotheses; the first is that modernity has ceased to produce history, the message of its religion has faded, it has ceased to seduce and attract, and its prophets have become incapable of speaking. The second is that the state of modernity, i.e. the nation-state or the nation-state - which is the political organization that carried modernity and played the role of the locomotive of its history, the engine of technical progress in it, and the maker of the identities of nations and nationalities - has lost, perhaps irrevocably, the energy of construction that characterized it, and has exhausted it, and it in turn has ceased to be the central actor in history. Moreover, this book is a plea for freedom, a deconstruction of the identity article and its expressions in nationalism, racism and walls of isolation, between people, nations, continents, societies and classes.
Section: Political Books
Number of pages: 296 pages
It deals with the current crisis, and the questions regarding it, its components, paradoxes and contradictions. Its five chapters approach the modern state and the contradictions of its claims, and the repercussions of these contradictions on issues affecting political identities, especially human freedom. The author’s arguments are based on two central, interconnected hypotheses; the first is that modernity has ceased to produce history, the message of its religion has faded, it has ceased to seduce and attract, and its prophets have become incapable of speaking. The second is that the state of modernity, i.e. the nation-state or the nation-state - which is the political organization that carried modernity and played the role of the locomotive of its history, the engine of technical progress in it, and the maker of the identities of nations and nationalities - has lost, perhaps irrevocably, the energy of construction that characterized it, and has exhausted it, and it in turn has ceased to be the central actor in history. Moreover, this book is a plea for freedom, a deconstruction of the identity article and its expressions in nationalism, racism and walls of isolation, between people, nations, continents, societies and classes.
Frustrating dream
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