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We do not know why we were born or what we become after death. We are all astray. That's the question, "What am I doing here" that this pocket manual strives to meet.

Life. --- 165.745 --- 165.745 Levensfilosofie --- Levensfilosofie --- Life --- Philosophy

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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- 165.74 --- Pragmatisme. Humanisme. Levensfilosofie --- 165.74 Pragmatisme. Humanisme. Levensfilosofie

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According to Sylvia Wynter, "We humans cannot pre-exist our origin myths any more than a bee can pre-exist its beehive." Such *representations of origin* comprise cosmogonies through which each human group responds to the question of who-we-are. The function of these stories is to initiate the members of societies into *sociogenic/cosmogonic replicator codes*, which underwrite the social mechanisms of in- and ex-clusion as well as the production of meaning.

Drawing inspiration from Wynter's companion essays "The Ceremony Must Be Found" (1984) and "The ceremony Found" (2015), *Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World)* engages closely with her thought to argue that "modernity," contrary to its own self-image as rational and secular, is also determined by origin myths that emerged through the mutations of Christian cosmology following the dawn of capitalism in the late Middle Ages. Furthermore, modernity is predicated on a series of "underside costs": from dispossession and slavery to extractivism and climate change.

Featuring over two dozen unique contributions and commentaries upon Wynter's propositions from artists and writers, this publication constitutes a critical reference point for those seeking to construct and envisage a "counter-cosmogony"- a revolutionary turning/overturning of the world-systemic conditions that currently endanger planetary life.

ceremonies --- capitalism --- art criticism --- myths --- Wynter, Sylvia --- levensfilosofie

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165.74 --- Pragmatisme. Humanisme. Levensfilosofie --- Humanism, Religious. --- Life. --- 165.74 Pragmatisme. Humanisme. Levensfilosofie --- Humanism, Religious --- Life --- Religious humanism --- Theological anthropology --- Philosophy