A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF EMANCIPATION IN A COMMON WORLD

Philosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. From the philosophical ferment of the Enlightenment arose the idea of emancipation, a conflictual perspective which Marina Garcés would have us rethink. New Radical Enlightenment lays out the need for critical dissent as a new beginning for the humanities in apocalyptic times. The productive dissent she envisions is established on the inclusion of multiple perspectives attending to common problems.

Our societies are faced with the urgency of combating dogmatism in all its forms. Fundamentalism, authoritarianism, and the struggle of the rich against the poor are returning. We also see dogmatic ways of dealing with science, data, and technology emerging. In the face of this, unfinished philosophy is a bid to make thought exciting once again. It is not a question of nurturing sterile theories. Today's young people need powerful tools for a critical imagination. Leaping out of historicism, the new radical enlightenment arrives to address anew the central problems of contemporary philosophy and place them in a planetary, postcolonial, and feminist framework: a philosophy for a common world.

"A book that shines indomitably." - El País

"Books like this one encourage the reader to grow up in unexpected ways." - El Periódico

"Marina Garcés insists on demonstrating through her acts the ideas she supports intellectually: philosophy is a transformative and endless power, a way of living." - PlayGround

"How frightening, we are losing our enlightenment. The loss of reason is sending us back to before the Age of Enlightenment. The most effective response to overcome this crisis of civilization, according to Spanish philosopher Marian Garcés, is the promotion of a new radical enlightenment, the title of her agile essay-manifesto. A necessary operation "to reaffirm the freedom and dignity of human experience". Against all induced fear, the fuse of dictatorial and securitarian temptations." - Il Venerdì di Repubblica

"Garcés' ambition is thus the return to an imaginary collective enlightenment, in which anonymous clandestine manuscripts are presumably replaced by the militant online samizdat: "Being able to say 'we don't believe you' is the most egalitarian expression of the common power of thought." - El Foglio Quotidiano

"Marina Garcés and her books do not offer formulas or recipes. They argue that philosophy is necessary for the concrete life of each of us and for our societies in crisis. There are those who think that philosophy should be protected and defended as if it were a museum piece or an endangered species. Marina Garcés emphasizes the opposite "philosophy cannot be preserved, it must be practiced and exposed." Garcés proposes to open ourselves to the present of an unfinished philosophy for a world that shows symptoms of exhaustion." - El Diario

"Marina Garcés, the rebellious philosopher. Marina Garcés is the thinker of insubordination and social movements. She has taken philosophy beyond the academic world." - El Mundo