Fri, Jun 28
|Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehous
Peter Gabel The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self
Co-Presented by Journey Santa Fe. The Desire for Mutual Recognition is a work of accessible social theory that seeks to make visible the desire for authentic social connection, emanating from our social nature, that animates all human relationships.
Date, Time & Location
Jun 28, 2019, 6:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehous, 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM, USA
About the Event
“Peter Gabel is one of the grand prophetic voices in our day. He also is a long-distance runner in the struggle for justice." –Cornel West, Harvard University.
“Peter Gabel’s The Desire for Mutual Recognition may soon reshape the landscape of contemporary social theory. With great sophistication and yet accessibility for those with no previous background, Gabel reveals the key to healing and transforming our world. Demonstrating why those who seek liberation must move past liberalism, Marxism, and deconstruction, Gabel shows how a respiritualization of every aspect of our world can move us beyond the alienation that characterizes so much of human interactions and the institutions in which we are continually imagining ourselves to be stuck.” Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor Tikkun
Using a social-phenomenological method that illuminates rather than explains social life, Peter Gabel shows how the legacy of social alienation that we have inherited from prior generations envelops us in…