Aesthetics of Living: The Deepening Crises
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31-03-2021
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Social Trends
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Roy, Sanjay K.
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University of North Bengal
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Roy, S. K. (31 C.E.). Aesthetics of Living: The Deepening Crises. Social Trends, 8, 246–270. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4171
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Roy, Sanjay K.
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Abstract
A combination of neo-liberalism and right-wing nationalism
is out to vitiate democratic orders and citizenship in some parts of the
globe. This new order threatens the livelihood of a large majority of
the population in one way or the other, destabilizes their livelihood
rights, disenfranchises them, constricts their freedom and imprisons
their creative faculty in its efforts to enforce a homogenous culture.
The prime challenge before the citizens in these countries, therefore,
is to defend the individual freedom and agency and right to collective
resistance making use of their critical faculty. An ideal benevolent
social democratic order, which respects freedom of the subjects and
of the communities, upholds the egalitarian and humane ideals and
negates any form of coercion or oppression, is everybody’s dream.
Such a dream is actualized in some social-democratic countries in the
Scandinavian. However, the countries that combine neo-liberal greed
with authoritarianism and a monolithic culture betray the livelihood
expectations and sabotage the proliferation of an aesthetic life. The
task before the enlightened citizens, therefore, is to prepare to be able
to decrypt the systemic technology of subversion of human freedom,
rights and agency and look for ways and means to preserve the
subjective freedom and be a part of the collective moves to create an
ideal material and aesthetic order.
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Freedom, authoritarianism, livelihood, aesthetics, neo-liberal order, risk society, reflexive modernity, technology of self
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8
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2348-6538
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246 - 270