De-Fragmenting Modernity

We live in a strangely fragmented lifeworld. On the one hand, abstract constructions of our own imagination—such as money, "mere" facts, and mathematical models—are treated by us as important objective facts. On the other hand, our understanding of the concrete realities of meaning and value in which our daily lives are actually embedded—love, significance, purpose, wonder—are treated as arbitrary and optional subjective beliefs. This is because, to us, only quantitative and instrumentally ...