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Integrative Aperspectivism or Constructive Postmodernism

Vanja Borš ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanites and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to make aware that an integral approach is immanently postmodern, i.e. that exactly such an approach, that is an integral aperspectivism, is a precondition for a constructive postmodernism. Hence, the basic characteristics of postmodernism are briefly outlined – constructivism, contextualism, multi(pluri)perspectivism and aperspectivism – which are also crucial components of any integral approach to reality. Special attention is paid to aperspectivism in this context in order to highlight – contrary to the extreme pluralism and the relativism of nihilist and destructive postmodernism – critical evaluation, ranking, etc., as essential features of the integral approach (integral aperspectivism), that is, of a constructive postmodernism thereby integrating a multitude of perspectives within their functional validity. Ultimately, it is stated that precisely in the postmodern era emerge anthropological preconditions for such a nonexclusive and context-adaptive, integral approach to reality, while the attention, on this occasion, is focused on the cognitive developmental line, that is, on the post-formal level of cognition.

Keywords

postmodernity; integral approach; aperspectivism; constructive postmodernism; post-formal level of cognition

Hrčak ID:

142577

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/142577

Publication date:

25.5.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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