No terreno normativo da modernidade

Abstract

O texto desenvolve um painel conceitual da modernidade, entendida como uma consciência histórica que articula promessas e discursos de emancipação (progresso, razão, etc.) tensionados em sua efetivação. Revisito algumas chaves teóricas a fim de articular a teoria social às linhas de força que constituem parâmetros capazes de balizar temas como a razão instrumental, a crítica, a autonomização das relações de mercado, o novo e a técnica. A modernidade não é apenas uma descrição da estrutura social, mas uma atitude em relação aos valores e aos ritmos históricos de transformação. Ao instituir um terreno normativo em que os valores são legitimados e tensionadas pela experiência histórica, soçobram os impasses de um projeto inacabado que permanece no horizonte da crise contemporânea.
 Abstract: This paper offers a conceptual framework that deals with modernity, conceived as a historical consciousness that comprises discourses of emancipation (progress, reason, etc.) that are tensioned in their effort at actualization. The paper discusses the main approaches of social theory with themes like instrumental reason, critique, the autonomization of market relations, the new and technique. Modernity is not only a description of the social structure, but rather it is embedded in an attitude regarding values and the historical pace of transformations. With the institution of a normative terrain where values are legitimated and tensioned in light of the historical experience, the impasses of an unfinished project remain on the horizon of the contemporary crisis.
 Keywords: Modernity. Critique. Crisis. Transition. Social change.

Critique and emancipation as normative axes of social theory and education

“…In the sense that we are concerned with what we refer to as 'critique' in this modern sense, the importance for us is the larger purpose, not the particular inflections of the multiple applications of the word. Critique, in our sense here, elevated the present to an object of philosophical enquiry (LÖWITH, 1964) and the present became problematic, since everything became subjected to the domain of critique of established traditions (NARITA, 2021a;NARITA, 2021b). In other words, the present was subjected to scrutiny in order the reveal its immanent containment of the full human potentiality blocked by the development of modern society (COLE, 2014).…”