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Reclaiming Religion
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- Title: Reclaiming Religion: Why Empire Cannot Be Sustained
- Author(s): Alexander Sieber
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: New Directions in the Humanities
- Journal Title: The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies
- Keywords: Empire, Multitude, Heidegger, Framing, Art, Filtering
- Volume: 14
- Issue: 1
- Date: November 10, 2015
- ISSN: 2327-0047 (Print)
- ISSN: 2327-2155 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-0047/CGP/v14i01/43504
- Citation: Sieber, Alexander. 2015. "Reclaiming Religion: Why Empire Cannot Be Sustained." The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies 14 (1): 41-47. doi:10.18848/2327-0047/CGP/v14i01/43504.
- Extent: 7 pages
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Abstract
The new orthodoxy of neoliberal thinking has led to a reduction in both freedom and prosperity for the multitude by thrusting forth the modern Empire. By using the phenomenological method, I conclude that this new type of Empire cannot be sustained, because it tries to occupy the same space as the human spirit. Instead of reaching fulfillment, Empire faces inevitable fragmentation. To illustrate my point, I utilize Heidegger’s conception of art.
