Original scientific paper
MODERNITY AND IMMEDIATENESS : A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF A MODERNITY INTERPRETATION MODEL AND A POSITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRITIQUE
Ivan Rogić
; Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb
Abstract
The author sets forth a thesis that expansion of rationality is not characteristic for a modern model of social transformation. On the contrary, a modern model searches for a possibility of defining the immediate life as a central social reality. From that decision results a relatively consistent program of "emancipated life" reconstruction, in the range form a new conception on knowledge, where pre-rational syntheses have the same value as rational ones, a new conception of love, to a new conception of a machine. In a social reality of a modern society, however, the use of this model permeates and clashes with the use of a transformation model that originates from pre-modern period or from the period of the enlightenment. In this model, the central figure of reality is a rational actor. These two models, therefore, function as opposite and complementary ones. Postmodern period is characterized by the fact that in this period events are "double coded" with regard to both mentioned models. The author holds that exactly this fact of "double coding" is a real basis of environmental critique.
Keywords
modernity; modernization; social construction of reality; immediate life; immediate life reality; love
Hrčak ID:
141397
URI
Publication date:
15.9.1995.
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