Based on the critical reconstruction of diagnosis modernity by A. Giddens, article traces logic transition from institutional to civilizational approach in sociological discourse “modernity”. The analysis focuses problem relationship between culture and reflexivity. In Giddens’ theory radical modernity, reflexivity is opposed culture, which identified with tradition. According multiple modernit...

Being able to give reasons for what the world is and how it works is one of the defining characteristics of modernity. Mathematical reason and empirical observation brought science and engineering to unprecedented success. However, modernity has reached a post-state where an instrumental view of technology needs revision with reasonable arguments and evidence, i.e., without falling back to supe...

I offer a major reassessment of Foucault’s philosophico-historical account of the basic problems of modernity. I revise our understanding of Foucault by countering the influential misinterpretations proffered by his European interlocutors such as Habermas and Derrida. Central to Foucault’s account of modernity was his work on two crucial concept pairs: freedom/power and reason/madness. I argue ...

This work analyzes the sanitary question in the modernity-postmodernity debate. Such analyses are performed form a philosophical position that states the crisis of Modernity and questions the ideological twist that to itself propitiates postmodernity, shutting out questioning views or visions. It propitiates an alternative view of politics, thinking of it from the potency plane and giving a rol...

This article discusses the concept of post-truth in light current moment ignorance objective facts detriment subjectivism. It was proposed to verify whether this trend would be responsible for trivialization presumption innocence principle, henceforth change jurisprudence Federal Supreme Court 2016, and ratification previous constitutional interpretation at end 2019, by ADCs 43, 44 54. is perce...

This article offers the concept of ‘global modernity’ (in the singular) as a way to understand the contemporary world. It suggests that the concept helps overcome the teleology implicit in a term such as globalization, while it also recognizes global difference and conflict, which are as much characteristics of the contemporary world as tendencies toward unity and homogenization. These differen...