Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition - Couverture souple

Santos, Boaventura De Sousa

 
9780415904391: Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition

Synopsis

"Towards a New Common Sense" argues for a thorough and incisive critique of modernity. Incapable of renewal, deplete of emancipatory values and current only as a result of its historical inertia. Modernity, Boaventura de Sousa Santos argues, can no longer serve as the ground upon which values and ethics, progressive laws and emancipatory powers are generated. Considering three key concepts (law, power and science), Santos emphasizes the impotence of modernity to dramatically transform daily life and practice. He gestures towards a new common sense which he locates in the transition to postmodernity.

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9780415904384: Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition

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ISBN 10 :  0415904382 ISBN 13 :  9780415904384
Editeur : Routledge, 1995
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