The Age of Neoliberal Capitalism and the Eclipse of Intergenerational Care: A Philosophical Reading at the Aftermath of the Pandemic

Authors

Ferdinando G. MengaFollow

Keywords

Intergenerational Care, Future, Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Heidegger, Stiegler

Document Type

Commentary

Abstract

Taking its cue from the experience of pandemic, which has had an enormous impact on society at a global level, this paper makes a two-faceted plea by way of a philosophical analysis. In the first place, it claims that care should entail not only a present-based reach, but also an intergenerational character. In the second place, the paper analyzes the deep genealogy of the current structural blindness towards a future-oriented understanding of care, a genealogy which is to be traced back to the very modern liberal-capitalist design of society, and, furthermore, is to be detected nowadays in its extreme form by dint of its neoliberal shift.

Recommended Citation

Menga, Ferdinando G. (2025) "The Age of Neoliberal Capitalism and the Eclipse of Intergenerational Care: A Philosophical Reading at the Aftermath of the Pandemic," Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis: Vol. 4: Iss. 1, Article 4.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55533/2765-8414.1128
Available at: https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol4/iss1/4