Metamodernism : the future of theory / Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Josephson-Storm, Jason Ānanda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--21st century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Post-postmodernism.

Postmodernism.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Ontology.

Physical Description:

xii, 360 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Future of theory

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

"For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The decay of master narratives showcases a distrust of universals, while deepening particularity seems to promise nothing but further dissolution. For Jason Josephson-Storm, these are dead ends. He wants to offer a path forward, which he terms metamodernism. This is the first full-length work to line up the various critiques of disciplinary master-categories (religion, science, art, etc.) and trace their affinities and shared conceptual roots. It suggests that if these critiques are granted, they tell us something fundamental about the mechanisms through which concepts and social categories are produced and maintained. They suggest that the social world should be seen in terms of a "process social ontology" with temporary zones of stability called "social kinds." This amounts to a new theory of society and a new methodology for research in the human sciences. The work also broadens to fundamental issues of the relationship between knowledge and value, promoting not skepticism but zeteticism--a stance directed toward humble, emancipatory knowledge. Valuing this form of knowledge allows postmodernism to be channeled into a critical virtue ethics directed toward multi-species"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Opening

Part I. Metarealism. How the real world became a fable, or, the realities of social construction

Part II. Process social ontology. Concepts in disintegration & strategies for demolition

Process social ontology

Social kinds

Part III. Hylosemiotics. Hylosemiotics : the discourse of things

Part IV. Knowledge and value. Zetetic knowledge

The revaluation of values

Conclusion : becoming metamodern.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226602295

022660229X

9780226786650

022678665X

OCLC:

1200579878