Alienation and resignation: why don't we act against apocalyptic futures?

dc.contributor.advisorKattago, Siobhan, juhendaja
dc.contributor.authorGavrilin, Andrey
dc.contributor.otherTartu Ülikool. Humanitaarteaduste ja kunstide valdkondet
dc.contributor.otherTartu Ülikool. Filosoofia osakondet
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-27T20:09:56Z
dc.date.available2021-06-27T20:09:56Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractHumanity faces apocalyptic futures which are the product of the current socio-economic system. However, the present response is insufficient. This thesis analyzes what prevents people from effectively acting against future catastrophes. In order to do so, I use climate change as the main example and employ a Marxist critique of capitalism. I argue that the insufficiency of current responses to catastrophic futures can be explained by Marx’s notion of alienation which is inherent to the current mode of production. In first three chapters I demonstrate different consequences of estranged labor. First, it makes people alienated not only from the fruits of their labor, but also from other people, thus preventing collective actions. Secondly, it disconnects individuals from the world which they collectively produce. Thirdly, it alienates individuals from a collectively produced future, affecting their perception of temporality and making them see the future as inevitable but eternally postponed. Thus, they become discouraged to act against the catastrophes which they collectively cause. In the fourth chapter I propose two philosophical solutions to this deadlock – Stoicism, which enables individual activity, and existentialism, which motivates people to act even if their struggle is absurd.en
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dc.identifier.other20.03.01 GAV 01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10062/72713
dc.language.isoenget
dc.publisherTartu Ülikoolet
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dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
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dc.subjectphilosophyen
dc.subjectalienationen
dc.subject.othermagistritöödet
dc.subject.otherfilosoofiaet
dc.subject.othervõõrandumineet
dc.titleAlienation and resignation: why don't we act against apocalyptic futures?et
dc.typeThesiset

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