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Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking

Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking

Donati, Pierpaolo

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Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0367705125
ISBN13: 9780367705121
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2021
Pages: 252
Language: English

The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003146698, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

This book explores the ways in which social relations are profoundly changing modern society, arguing that, constituting a reality of their own, social relations will ultimately lead to a new form of society: an aftermodern or relational society. Drawing on the thought of Simmel, it extends the idea that society consists essentially of social relations, in order to make sense of the operation of dichotomous forces in society and to examine the emergence of a third in the morphogenetic processes. Through a realist and critical relational sociology, which allows for the fact that human beings are both internal and external to social relations, and therefore to society, the author shows how we are moving towards a new, trans-modern society - one that calls into question the guiding ideas of Western modernity, such as the notion of linear progression, that science and technology are the decisive factors of human development, and that culture can entirely supplant nature. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, economists, political scientists, and social philosophers with interests in relational thought, critical realism, and social transformation.

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