Hope, political imagination, and agency in Marxism and beyond: Explicating the transformative worldview and ethico-ontoepistemology

Given the sociopolitical crisis and turmoil in the world today, there is a great need for philosophical and sociocultural critiques that are not only concerned with deconstructing the present and the past but also with offering forward-looking, radical solutions to the problems and challenges we fac...

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Published in:Educational philosophy and theory 2020-06, Vol.52 (7), p.726-737
Main Author: Stetsenko, Anna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Activists
Capital
Critical race theory
Critical Theory
Criticism
Distributive justice
Educational Philosophy
Epistemology
ethics
Feminism
future
Imagination
Marxism
Materialism
ontology
Personal Autonomy
Political Attitudes
politics
Psychological Patterns
Race
resistance
Role
Social Change
Social Justice
Social Problems
Social Systems
Sociocultural factors
Subjectivity
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Transformation
Transformative Learning
World Views
Worldview
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Summary:Given the sociopolitical crisis and turmoil in the world today, there is a great need for philosophical and sociocultural critiques that are not only concerned with deconstructing the present and the past but also with offering forward-looking, radical solutions to the problems and challenges we face. Drastic times call for drastic measures, including in exploring and advancing a flagrantly partisan scholarship with explicitly transformative activist agendas of strengthening the public and personal agency needed to constrain capital for the sake of social and economic justice. The argument advanced in this article is that Marxism - reinvigorated, re-envisioned and infused with insights from recent scholarship in feminism, critical pedagogy, cultural-historical and critical race theories, and new materialism, among others - can offer a new worldview in which political imagination and other phenomena of human subjectivity find their due, that is, central and formative place to thus allow for the advancement of research with activist agendas as a form of resistance. In utilizing such a worldview, research and theoretical constructions can break away from the ethos of adaptation and instead to actively strive for social transformation based in a radical reworking of the status and role of political imagination and associated notions of agency, hope, and commitment.
ISSN:0013-1857
1469-5812
DOI:10.1080/00131857.2019.1654373