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In this article, Mocombe highlights what he calls the pathological-pathogenic purposive-rationalities (liberalism, nihilism, conservatism, postmodernism, intersectionality/identity politics, and secular humanism) that emerge out of modernity as constituted by the West under American hegemony. In the place of these pathological-pathogenic responses to the vagaries of modernity, Mocombe calls for an antihumanism, associated with what he calls libertarian communism, as a panacea to the aforementioned malaises.

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ideological domination, identity politics, postmodernism, modernism, intersectionality, nihilism, liberalism

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Paul C. Mocombe. (2023). The Pathologies of Modernity: Liberalism, Nihilism, Conservatism, Postmodernism, Intersectionality/Identity Politics, and Secular Humanism. Philosophy Study, April 2023, Vol. 13, No. 4, 183-189.

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