Contradictions of Capitalist Society and Culture: Dialectics of Love and Lying

by Raju J Das

Love and truth are important aspects of culture. Signifying the crisis of capitalist culture in the contemporary world are their opposites, i.e. hate and lying, respectively. There is rampant lying for ideological/political purposes. There is also an increasing absence of genuine love, i.e., love as caring and solidarity, which, under certain conditions, takes romantic forms. Ideological-political lying is connected to the corruption of love, with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004539972
• ISBN13: 9789004539976
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 224 Pages