ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses steps in a radical re-construal of the presently influential notions of personhood and the self—and related notions of agency, identity, and subjectivity —based in a worldview-level reassessment of what we take human beings to be vis-a-vis the world, each other, and ourselves. A truly revolutionary and radical agency, in author view, has been under-theorized by extant frameworks—as most of them have developed alongside a retreat from radical politics. Political action requires a concept of humanity grounded in an explicit notion of agency that could support nascent social movements aspiring toward post-capitalist visions of equality and social justice. In it, social change is extending to the core of reality—rather than it belonging to a separate layer of social dynamics, thus blurring distinctions between conceptual analysis and political struggle, philosophy and activism, theory and practice, facts and values.
