Imposed Rationality and Besieged Imagination: Practical Life and Social Pathologies by Gustavo PereiraEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2019 | 200 Pages | ISBN : 3030265196 | 3 MB
Social pathologies are social processes that hinder how individuals exercise their autonomy and freedom. In this book, Gustavo Pereira offers an account of such phenomena by defining them as a cognitive failure that affects the practical imagination, thus negatively interfering with our practical life. This failure of the imagination is the consequence of the imposition of a type of practical rationality on a practical context alien to it, caused by a non‑conscious transformation of the individuals’ set of beliefs and values.