Excellent piece. This last term I designed and taught a new module on personhood, for exactly this reason: that individualism is at the heart of the crisis we are in. I shall add this to the readings for the last week, on personhood and the Anthropocene,
Luckily, there are plenty of good traditions of thought to draw on from other parts o…
Excellent piece. This last term I designed and taught a new module on personhood, for exactly this reason: that individualism is at the heart of the crisis we are in. I shall add this to the readings for the last week, on personhood and the Anthropocene,
Luckily, there are plenty of good traditions of thought to draw on from other parts of the world that have long recognisaed our interdependence, from Ubuntu in Africa over Andean idea to feminist and working class ideas of personhood in Europe - individualism really mostly by, about and for white elite men - albeit with devastating consequences for everyone else.
Excellent piece. This last term I designed and taught a new module on personhood, for exactly this reason: that individualism is at the heart of the crisis we are in. I shall add this to the readings for the last week, on personhood and the Anthropocene,
Luckily, there are plenty of good traditions of thought to draw on from other parts of the world that have long recognisaed our interdependence, from Ubuntu in Africa over Andean idea to feminist and working class ideas of personhood in Europe - individualism really mostly by, about and for white elite men - albeit with devastating consequences for everyone else.