Machine summary:
world to fit Elmessiri: Modernity, Immanence, and Deconstruction 3 human needs, longings, and aspirations, an individual's life is modified and reoriented to follow value-free, rational, natural, and immutable laws.
When we say that "the world (humanity and nature) is subject completely to the laws of nature," that "man is defined either in terms of production (Adam Smith and Marx) or reproduction (Freud)"; that "life is nothing but a struggle for survival" and that "survival is for the fittest"; that "the superhuman cannot be judged by any norms external to him/her"; that "the world is an organic whole"; that "one's consciousness cannot be separated from one's physical body"; that "a woman's body is her destiny"; that "blood and soil determine national characteristics"; that "evolution and movement are the main and only permanent traits of nature"; that "a human being is determined either by his/her natural or social environment or his/her genes"; that "a human being is nothing but this or that material element"; that "matter is self-regulating"; that "science is value-free and derives its values from within itself'; that "all things and all values are relative"; that "all things are sacred" or that "nothing is sacred"-if we make any of the above statements, we are assuming, consciously or unconsciously, a highly organic, unified, self-sufficient, self-referential, self-explanatory, and self-activating universe with nothing beyond it Immanence is all.