Sociocultural Renaissance: Movement as the Art of Rethinking Everyday Life in Fractured Forms
Saeid Sharifi, Peyman VahabzadehThe quotidian is no longer a site of tranquil reiteration but a field of ontological fissure wherein sedimented collective structures undergo dissolution. This paper reconceives “sociocultural renaissance” not as a teleological ideal but as a phenomenological-existential process emergent from lifeworldly rupture. Engaging Husserl’s Lebenswelt, Heidegger’s Dasein-analytic, Merleau-Ponty’s carnal embodiment, and a radical phenomenology of collective praxis, it demonstrates fracture as structurally constitutive of sociohistorical being. Through a critique of “ultimate referentiality” and “articulated experiences,” the paper argues that fracture constitutes the transcendental condition for signification and collective transformation. Renaissance is thus redefined not as nostalgic restitution but as a mode of dwelling within fissure itself—a reorientation toward meaning-constitution when its ground reveals itself as abyssal and precarious. This demands acceptance of vulnerability and provisionality, ensuring that emergent forms remain perpetually open to reconfiguration. Ultimately, sociocultural renaissance consists of the arduous art of indwelling within ever-generative fractures. Freedom is actualized neither through escape from nor sublimation of the everyday, but through the immanent praxis of its transformation, a fragile intersubjective praxis that inaugurates the horizon of a genuinely common world.