Abstract

DANNER, Leno Francisco. Which heritage of modernity? A critic to universalism as normative criteria and cosmopolitan project. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2017, vol.31, n.62, pp.1191-1226.  Epub Mar 09, 2021. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.issn.0102-6801.v31n62a2017-p1191a1226.

according to Habermas’ theory of modernity, European culture has two special and related characteristics, institutional secularization and reflexive subjectivity, which would enable the constitution of processes of non-ethnocentric and non-egocentric socialization-subjetivation, guaranteeing universalism and establishing democracy and human rights as its basis. I criticize habermasian position, accusing it of having a historical-sociological blindness and performing a romanticization of rationalism that idealize and separate it of the colonization process developed since Europe, placing it as independent of economic-cultural colonization, in a way to serve of evaluative paradigm of particular contexts, as basis to a cosmopolitan integrative project. I will defend that epistemological-moral universalism, in the moment it putts the rationalization as key to the maturity of the cultures and of a cosmopolitan integrative project, leads directly to delegitimation of mythical-traditional knowledge and practices, opening a free way to modernization travestied of cultural colonization and economic globalization.

Keywords : Habermas; Modernity; Rationalism; Universalism; Heritage.

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