EN 3000 Lecture Notes - Mikhail Bakhtin, Marxist Literary Criticism, Nikita Khrushchev
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Praxis [is located] between the theoretical and the practical as they are generally understood, and particularly as they are understood in modern philosophy. Rebellion against traditional forms of authority such as the church and the. Monarchy, and an attempt to establish the autonomy of the individual"s capability to reason. Rise of democratic political forms, based on the autonomy of the individual. This democracy is often described as liberal" concerned with rights of individuals and as closely related to capitalist economic forms and commerce epitomised by the industrial revolution and the rise of machine production. Modern thought, furthermore, builds on this faith in reason and human autonomy, and leads to a proliferation of subjectivist and individualistic ways of conceptualising the world. Modernity is a concept that embodies cultural aspects of the modern era such as the rebellion against traditional authority and faith in reason and autonomy of the individual; these are concretely expressed in liberal-democratic political forms.
