Authors: Silva, Filipe Carreira da; Vieira, Mónica Brito

Source: Social Analysis, Volume 53, Number 2, Summer 2009 , pp. 60-79(20)

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

Abstract:

The article begins with the assumption that modernity is undergoing a profound change. The focus is on the structural transformation of two typical modern institutional regimes: the academic discipline and the territorial nation-state. Their demise as the predominant institutional forms in the realms of science and politics signals the end of the modern project—or at least the need for its profound redefinition. It is suggested that such a redefinition entails a radical conceptual shift in the social sciences and that the meta-theoretical expression of this shift can be designated as 'dialogical pluralism'. At a theoretical level, both modernization theories and the recent program of 'multiple modernities' are rejected. A plural modernity, with several distinct varieties, seems a more promising perspective.

Keywords: ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES; DIALOGICAL PLURALISM; HABERMAS; HONNETH; MULTIPLE MODERNITIES; NATION-STATE; PERFORMANCE

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sa.2009.530204

Publication date: 2009-06-01

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