Why was it impor\u00adtant that the modern indi\u00advi\u00addual be concep\u00adtua\u00adli\u00adzed in terms of this inter\u00adnal struggle bet\u00adween passion\/sentiments and rea\u00adson ? Timothy Mitchell\u2019s dis\u00adcus\u00adsion of Durkheim in Colonising Egypt<\/i> offers a sug\u00adges\u00adtive ans\u00adwer. The very concep\u00adtion of modern indi\u00advi\u00addual, Mitchell says in dis\u00adcus\u00adsing Durkheim\u2019s texts, poses a threat to the concep\u00adtion of the social and the gene\u00adral, for if indi\u00advi\u00adduals are endo\u00adwed with infi\u00adnite indi\u00advi\u00addua\u00adli\u00adty (which is what the dra\u00adma of pas\u00adsions is sup\u00adpo\u00adsed to reveal\u2014each per\u00adson his or her own nove\u00adlist and ana\u00adly\u00adsand at the same time), what is there to gua\u00adran\u00adtee the uni\u00adty of the social ? What would prevent the social realm, made up of such indi\u00advi\u00adduals (that is, people not sim\u00adply sub\u00adject to social prac\u00adtice, as they were sup\u00adpo\u00adsed to be in pri\u00admi\u00adtive socie\u00adties), from col\u00adlap\u00adsing into the night\u00admare of ano\u00admie ? The ans\u00adwer, at the level of the indi\u00advi\u00addual, would be : rea\u00adson. Reason, by focu\u00adsing the mind on the gene\u00adral and the uni\u00adver\u00adsal, would guide the individual\u2019s pas\u00adsion into its right\u00adful place in the social realm. This thought, taken by itself, was not neces\u00adsa\u00adri\u00adly modern, but its gene\u00adra\u00adli\u00adza\u00adtion through socie\u00adty, one could argue, marks the coming of modernity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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