Abstract

SANTOS, Luciano Costa. O pensamento fecundo: elementos para uma racionalidade transmoderna. Revista da FAAEBA: Educação e Contemporaneidade [online]. 2013, vol.22, n.39, pp.205-213. ISSN 0104-7043.

One of the main characteristics of the contemporary context is the deterioration of the illuminist founding ideals of modernity. This fact is due to the planetary expansion of a civilization system based on productivity and competitiveness. This historical trance reaches the modern “aesthetic” school which acts as database for market demanding. Facing the “postmodern” crossroad, we propose as a historical perspective the transmodernity paradigm that is beyond negation or confirmation of modernity. It consists of scientific and critical legacy appropriation of modern rationality through the relegated hermeneutical sources. These sources, as the dimensions of transcendence, alterity and tradition, give fruitful meaning that cannot be given by critical reason itself, and they are considered a kind of sapience stockpile facing the weak postmodern pragmatism.

Keywords : Modernity; Critical Reason; Postmodernity; Fruitful Thought; Transmodernity.

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