In the culture of the modern West, we see ourselves as thinking
subjects, defined by our conscious thought, autonomous and separate
from each other and the world we survey. Current research in
neurology and cognitive science shows that this picture is false.
We think with our bodies, and in interaction with others, and our
thought is never completed. The Fiction of a Thinkable World is a
wide-ranging exploration of the meaning of this insight for our
understanding of history, ethics, and politics.
Ambitious but never overwhelming, carrying its immense learning
lightly, The Fiction of a Thinkable World shows how the Western
conception of the human subject came to be formed historically, how
it contrasts with that of Eastern thought, and how it provides the
basic justification for the institutions of liberal capitalism. The
fiction of a world separated from each of us as we are separated
from each other, from which we make our choices in solitary
thought, is enacted by the voter in the voting booth and the
consumer at the supermarket shelf. The structure of daily
experience in capitalist society reinforces the fictions of the
Western intellectual tradition, stunt human creativity, and create
the illusion that the capitalist order is natural and
unsurpassable.
Steinberg's critique of the intellectual world of Western
capitalism at the same time illuminates the paths that have been
closed off in that world. It draws on Chinese ethics to show how
our actions can be brought in accord with the world as it is, in
its ever-changing interaction and mutual transformation, and
sketches a radical political perspective that sheds the illusions
of the Western model. Beautifully conceived andwritten, The Fiction
of a Thinkable World provides new ways of thinking and opens new
horizons.
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