Embracing Alienation

The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation? In Embracing Alienation , Todd McGowan offers a completely different take on alienation, claiming that the effort to overcome it is not a radical response to the current state of things but a failure to see the constitutive power of alienation for all of us. Instead of trying to overcome alienation and accede to an unalienated existence, it argues, we should instead redeem