Reinventing the Soul Quotes

“The fact that the self is socio-culturally constituted, that it is alienated rather than self-identical, does not mean that it does not long to live its life meaningfully. No matter how sophisticated our critical insights into the ideological seductions, exclusions, and manipulations through which we come to inhabit particular subject positions, no matter how refined our understanding of the systems of signification and power that rob us of self-determination, and no matter how elaborate our efforts at cultural demystification, it is virtually impossible to exorcise, on the level of concrete lived experience, the appeal of a life well lived. Who among us does not strive to live life to the fullest?”
― Mari Ruti, Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life