![]() ![]() ![]() Looking back, this novel can be read as a modern myth describing the historical construction of the individualised, male, western subject, which became the hegemonic form of orientation in capitalist modernity. The aim of this text is to clarify the modern problem of orientation through a reading of one of the great modern myths of western man, namely Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Here, at the beginning of the bourgeois epoch, we sense that orientation is always more than geographical. To understand the emergence of the problematic of orientation in modern western philosophy, one must turn to narratives of geographical disorientation in the meeting between modern capitalist Europe and its others. An exploration of the emergence of the orientations of modern male bourgeois individuality. ![]()
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