The Myth of Modernity
The Myth of Modernity
The conclusion spells out the implications of the work as a whole. It addresses three Foucauldian doubts about the myth of disenchantment or “modernity paradigm” that have been animating this work as a whole: the historical doubt (is the disenchantment of the world truly an established historical pattern?), the critical-historical doubt (how, in the face of vibrant spiritualist and magical movements, did European societies come to think of themselves as disenchanted?), and the politico-theoretical doubt (have the workings of domination in Euro-American societies really belonged primarily to the mode of disenchantment?). This chapter devotes a section to addressing each of these doubts, and in so doing tie together some of the threads that have been woven throughout this book.
Keywords: Modernity, Postmodernity, Postmodernism, Disenchantment, Modernism, Myth, Foucault, Bruno Latour, human sciences, philosophy
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