Bijan Abdolkarimi's Lecture: Indicators of Future Thought

Bijan Abdolkarimi's Lecture: Indicators of Future Thought Bijan Abdolkarimi: Today's world is more Nietzschean than ever

The expansion and dominance of extreme imperialism, the concealment of instincts behind institutions and continuous strife in place of the Kantian ideal of peace arising from the rule of reason, the realization of the "Hobbesian man," the weakening of social solidarities and the individual's sense of belonging to society, the end of the era of nation-states, the death of historical and cultural heritage, the death of the concept of the nation, the collapse of geographical borders and the weakening of political authorities, the emergence of the electronic state and the weakening of political authorities, the destabilization of the fundamental assumptions of modern politics, the absence of liberating forces (the proletariat is no longer the savior of humanity), the death of utopia, the end of the era of revolution and the elimination of the concept of revolution from the lexicon of contemporary human thought, the perception of conflict as an anomaly (any conflict with the status quo is suppressed), the death of authenticities, the increase of systemic determinism, the transformation of the nature of the political into the economic, the absence of a regulating principle in politics, the mediatization of the world and humanity, the increasing sense of self-alienation, the dissolution of the political, and in a word, the emergence of the "last man," are among the most important characteristics of the current world culture.

This lecture was delivered on 19 May 2015 at the "Horizons Facing Cultures" session, part of the series of sessions for the international conference "The Future of Culture" at Allameh Tabataba'i University.

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"Indicators of Future Thought"; Bijan Abdolkarimi, 19/05/2015, Allameh Tabataba'i University (RA)

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Source: Simafekr

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