Uma gramática pós-moderna para pensar o social

Theories of Development and Politics of the Post‐modern — Exploring a Border Zone

“…Moreover, it is still possible to inject those opaque and resistent areas of postmodernism with the potential for new and 'as yet undiscovered meanings' (Richard 1987/88: 12). Similar echoes of open and innovative critique come from other Latin American intellectuals (Arditi, 1987;Brunner, 1987;Calderon, 1987;Hinkelammert. 1987;Reigadas, 1988), who tend to express a double or ambivalent attitude towards notions of post-modernism.…”

“…It is also important to guard against the idea that there is a First World-Third World schism between 'paradox' in one and 'fortress' in the other (Pscheux, 1983); that in the Third World people know how to resist and to fight, whereas in the First, movements have acquired a greater degree of reflexive maturity and complex interweaving that leads to all kinds of paradoxes. The complexities of social movements on the periphery (Arditi, 1987; Gonzllez, 1987; Jelin, 1990;Vargas, 1991; Viola, 1988) cannot be forced into the limiting terms of terror, violent protest and armed rebellion. The struggles for democratic transformation take many forms, connecting inter aliu with ecological, women's, urban, ethno-regionalist and human rights issues.…”