The Future and Its Enemies: In Defense of Political Hope (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Daniel Innerarity
Language: English
Pages: 152
ISBN: 0804775575
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In The Future and Its Enemies, Spanish philosopher Daniel Innerarity makes a plea for a new social contract that would commit us to moral and political responsibility with respect to future generations. He urges us to become advocates for the future in the face of enemies who, oblivious to the costs of modernization, press for endless and unproductive acceleration. His accessible book proposes a new way of confronting the unknown—one grounded in the calculation of risk. Declaring the classical right-left divide to be redundant, Innerarity presents his hopes for a renewed democracy and a politics that would find convincing ways to mediate between the priorities of the present, the heritage of the past, and the challenges that lie ahead.
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apparent and explains the background forces operating in global spheres: migratory movements, a lack of legal cohesion, distinct responsibilities regarding the environment, the hegemonic power that resists involvement in the realities of post-autonomous synchronization, etc. The weakness of the institutions of world governance makes it enormously difficult to synchronize a world that is increasingly out of control. Desynchronization is also related to uneven global unification (which makes us
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authoritarian manner), but with a post-heroic decisionism (understood as collective deliberation to combat uncertainty in a democratizing manner). The process of delving deeper into democracy currently means learning to live in a context of risk and uncertainty. By defusing the element of indeterminacy that characterizes all contingency, systems reveal the “moment of possibility” engendered by all contingencies (Makropoulos 1998, 73). Politics is a site of both opportunity and danger, at the