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The Fatal Conceit: Elisions of Materialism

In: Against Eurocentrism: A Transcendent Critique of Modernist Science, Society, and Morals

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  • Rajani Kannepalli Kanth

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The Enlightenment offered the world the arid, and seemingly ineluctable, gifts of science, materialism, and progress (i.e., Modernism, in a nutshell). Indeed, today, it is almost impossible to believe in any one of these elements without swearing fealty to the triad as a whole. Science was the instrument of deliverance of material wealth, and progress was measured by the incremental growth of that very wealth: as such, materialism was simply the grand ethos that legitimized the banal process shackling human labor, in perpetuity, to the wheel of endless accumulation. From the industrial revolution onwards, this omnipotent ideology of the Enlightenment gathered steam and grew in confidence and power with Political Economy as its Great Propagator, enshrining, in most of its variants, this unholy triumvirate of mistaken ideas in its entirety.

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  • Rajani Kannepalli Kanth, 2005. "The Fatal Conceit: Elisions of Materialism," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Against Eurocentrism: A Transcendent Critique of Modernist Science, Society, and Morals, chapter 3, pages 85-93, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-7879-0_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4039-7879-0_3
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