Zygmunt Bauman observed in Postmodern Ethics, the Grand Idea at the heart of modern restlessness, [the] guiding lantern perched on the prow of modernity’s ship, was the idea of emancipation: an idea which draws its meaning from what it negates and against which it rebels—from the shackles it wants to fracture, the wounds it wants to heal—and owes its allure to the promise of negation.
