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Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two (Metamodern Guides 2)

Hanzi Freinacht

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In Nordic Ideology, the anticipated sequel to The Listening Society, the great philosopher Hanzi Freinacht strikes again from his refuge in the Alps—now with a yet bolder mission: to write social and political theory as a page-turner.

This book can be read independently of the first one and it outlines a path to a metamodern society, emerging from the Nordic countries—one

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Published May 29th 2019 by Metamoderna ApS

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Oct 23, 2019 Филипп Феодосеев rated it it was amazing

If the previous academic works on ‘metamodernism’ (Vermeulen, Van der Akker, Gibbons) were apt in pointing out the real shifts in feelings and expectations of the artists, and if some other people who played with the term (Seth Abramson, Luke Turner) were capable of voicing relevant implications, precepts, and ‘rules’ of metamodern worldview, it is only within a framework developed by Hanzi Freinacht that these many different lines are synchronised to make real applied sense. Why? Partly because If the previous academic works on ‘metamodernism’ (Vermeulen, Van der Akker, Gibbons) were apt in pointing out the real shifts in feelings and expectations of the artists, and if some other people who played with the term (Seth Abramson, Luke Turner) were capable of voicing relevant implications, precepts, and ‘rules’ of metamodern worldview, it is only within a framework developed by Hanzi Freinacht that these many different lines are synchronised to make real applied sense. Why? Partly because he finds the language for unclothing the new subtle problems posed by modernity, problems that previously no one dared to recognise as such.
In a certain sense, we all knew that Scandinavian societies were getting something very right in terms of political, cultural, and economic development. But these countries lacked an articulated philosophy that could explain where exactly are they heading to. Their development was unfolding as it is, on a hunch, without a conscious plan or framework. We were told that it had something to do with interpersonal trust and trust in the institutions, cold climate that made warm bodies come closer together, and so on, but that’s a feeble explanation. All of this changed with the appearance of Hanzi Freinacht’s “Listening Society” and works of certain other northern thinkers like Lene Anderson and Tomas Bjorkman (“Nordic Secret”), Jonathan Rowson, Brent Cooper, whose developmental narratives had placed otherwise divergent fragments in their proper context.
Hanzi Freinacht is a broad and deep thinker. Nothing is left out from his books as he uses ‘metamodern’ lenses to address the full spectrum of our impending problems. I think there is a pattern to what he is doing in this book. Rowan Williams once said that the task of life is to encounter the uninvited in such a way as to make it invited. Coming from the most progressive place on Earth, Sweden, Hanzi is paying close attention to where we are going as humanity. He elucidates the directions in which progress takes us as to make them visible, trusted, and… “invited”.
Then he looks at the processes that make this progress happen. What are they precisely? As a society, we have accumulated an instituted political apparatus to handle some of them. But many remain outside the confines of our scrutiny. Hanzi merely points out — look, we are doing it anyway, but without conscious control and directionality. Now it is time to become aware and take responsibility for its unfolding.
In a way, Hanzi takes these awkward and uncanny and controversial themes and says “look — we have to grow up. We have to become adults who are ready to speak seriously and officially about the things that were until now floating on the margins of formal political process, thus poisoning and polarising the discourse, for there were no adults in the room to address them properly.” We have kind of left these processes in the hands of fate, instead of doing what Hanzi is doing. That is to say — if we partake in them whether we want it or not, then why not partake in them in all conscious seriousness? It reminds one of how a parent might bring children together to talk with them about how sexuality works. It is an awkward thing to discuss, granted, but it is worth it.

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Oct 05, 2019 Alvaro Sánchez rated it it was amazing

This book is not disappointing. Even though sometimes I felt some naivety in the system Hanzi is proposing (I think it is normal when you want to propose a brand new ideology), he did a very compelling diagnostic of the current state of affairs and the history of mankind from a kind of hegelian dialectic (which you can understand in a deeper way reading the Book One). He tried to take all the variables, he tried to understand the mistakes we as a human beings have committed through history and ...more

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