Gail Omvedt: Thinking Revolution and Seeking Utopia
In one of the last of her long essays (2014), Gail Omvedt (along with Bharat Patankar) called for the need to rethink philosophy, as such, so that it ceases to be a description of a world that must be freed from this or that oppressive aspect of existence, and instead becomes the condition for a rad...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Univ.
2021
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Nidān
Year: 2021, Volume: 6, Issue: 2, Pages: 102-108 |
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| Summary: | In one of the last of her long essays (2014), Gail Omvedt (along with Bharat Patankar) called for the need to rethink philosophy, as such, so that it ceases to be a description of a world that must be freed from this or that oppressive aspect of existence, and instead becomes the condition for a radically new world, a utopia that it thinks into being. Unsurprisingly, the article ended with a quote from Marx’s Introduction to Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: "To be radical is to grasp things by the root. But for man the root is man himself".1 |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2021.2 |