Affirmative Humanities
Affirmative Humanities
Author(s): Ewa DomańskaSubject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Fakulta humanitních studií
Keywords: Art; affirmative humanities; affirmative method; affirmative critique; potential history;
Summary/Abstract: The explorations presented in the article provide a brief outline of the larger affirmative humanities project. Following Rosi Braidotti’s ideas of affirmative ethics and politics, I propose an understanding of affirmative humanities as a way of moving away from a postmodernist interest in apocalypse, catastrophes, extinction, trauma, suffering, voids, silence and exclusion. I consider affirmative humanities to be a project that is future oriented, envisioning the future in more positive ways (which is not to say naive and unrealistic ways), while aiming to empower the subject (human and non-human, individual as well as collective) and looking for alternative forms of community.
Journal: Dějiny - Teorie - Kritika
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 9-26
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English