For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality
of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined
autonomous categories—such as religion, science, and art—has
collapsed under the weight of postmodern critiques, calling into
question the possibility of progress and even the value of knowledge.
Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm aims to radicalize and move beyond these
deconstructive projects to offer a path forward for the humanities and
social sciences using a new model for theory he calls metamodernism.
Metamodernism works through the postmodern critiques and uncovers the
mechanisms that produce and maintain concepts and social categories.
In so doing, Storm provides a new, radical account of society’s
ever-changing nature—what he calls a “Process Social
Ontology”—and its materialization in temporary zones of stability
or “social kinds.” Storm then formulates a fresh approach to
philosophy of language by looking beyond the typical theorizing that
focuses solely on human language production, showing us instead how
our own sign-making is actually on a continuum with animal and plant
communication. Storm also considers fundamental issues of the
relationship between knowledge and value, promoting a turn toward
humble, emancipatory knowledge that recognizes the existence of
multiple modes of the real. Metamodernism is a revolutionary manifesto
for research in the human sciences that offers a new way through
postmodern skepticism to envision a more inclusive future of theory in
which new forms of both progress and knowledge can be realized.
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The Future of Theory
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ISBN
9780226786797
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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