The Predicament of Emancipation and A New Starting of Historical Choice
- Available Online: 2019-09-01
Abstract: The attribute of the enlightenment in 18th century was an “enlightenment of emancipation”. Inspired by the spirit of enlightenment, almost all the social actions were carried out around “the theme of emancipation” in the development of industrial society thoroughly. By the late 20th century, human emancipated cause had sunk in the mire as it looks, a situation called “emancipation reflexive”. The Emancipation means to break the chains of human, to conquer nature and emancipate productivity, and to overturn all the oppression relationships of inequality and illiberality. Nonetheless, it reconstructed the system of oppression and constraint when seems to achieve emancipation in every path of human liberation, so far as to bring the threat that can lead to human destruction. Globalization and post-industrialization is a turning point in human history, which means that mankind will enter post-industrial society. If there was an Enlightenment of agricultural society in human history in the 18 century which was the movement of industrial society; then there will be another Enlightenment of post-industrial society in the process of globalization and post-industrialization.