TO END (REALLY) WITH MODERNITY

POUR EN FINIR (VRAIMENT) AVEC LA MODERNITÉ

Michel Casteigts ()
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Michel Casteigts: CREG - Centre de recherche et d'études en gestion - UPPA - Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour

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Abstract: The publication in 1979 of "The postmodern condition. Report on knowledge" by Jean-François Lyotard opened the way for a multitude of variations on the theme of modernity, its metamorphoses, its crises, its deaths and its resurrections. Despite or because of this overabundance of comments, the contribution of the modernity paradigm to understanding the contemporary world is less and less clear. The concept of modernization which is closely linked to it adds to the confusion, because it generally focuses on the transformation of the operating modes of social or political practices, without questioning the aims. After refuting the critics of modernity who, positioning themselves in relation to it, remain trapped in it, this text strives to highlight the exhaustion of this paradigm and its inability to account for the contemporary world. Ultimately, it is a question of analyzing the way in which the contemporary world is structured around a new articulation of the individual and the collective, in particular in a transformed relationship to institutions and territories. This re-articulation is irreducible to the conceptual frameworks of modernity.

Date: 2016
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Published in LA MODERNITÉ INÉGALE - Pouvoirs, avoirs et savoirs dans la construction d'une démocratie généralisée. Sedjari A. (dir.). Paris-Rabat, L'Harmattan GRET, p. 165-182., 2016

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