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Metamodernism

By Storm, Jason Ananda Josephson

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Metamodernism

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"For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The decay of master narratives showcases a distrust of universals, while deepening particularity seems to promise nothing but further dissolution. For Jason Josephson-Storm, these are dead ends. He wants to offer a path forward, which he terms metamodernism. This is the first full-length work to line up the various critiques of disciplinary master-categories (religion, science, art, etc.) and trace their affinities and shared conceptual roots. It suggests that if these critiques are granted, they tell us something fundamental about the mechanisms through which concepts and social categories are produced and maintained. They suggest that the social world should be seen in terms of a "process social ontology" with temporary zones of stability called "social kinds." This amounts to a new theory of society and a new methodology for research in the human sciences. The work also broadens to fundamental issues of the relationship between knowledge and value, promoting not skepticism but zeteticism--a stance directed toward humble, emancipatory knowledge. Valuing this form of knowledge allows postmodernism to be channeled into a critical virtue ethics directed toward multi-species"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
328
Release Date:
2021-07-20
Publication Date:
2021-07-20
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
022678665X
ISBN13:
9780226786650
Weight:
565 g
Height:
154 cm
Width:
230 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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