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| Author(s): |
Estevão Bosco
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2016-11-05 |
| Examining board members: |
Leila da Costa Ferreira;
Renato Ortiz;
Josué Pereira da Silva;
Frederic Vandenberghe;
Sergio Barreira de Faria Tavolaro
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| Advisor: | Leila da Costa Ferreira |
| Abstract | |
The object domain of this study circumscribes the internal connection between cosmopolitanism and modernization recently established in the social theory, with the emphasis in the cultural sphere. This connection is established with the intention to understand the transformations stimulated by a modernization that globalizes ¿ culturally, politically and economically. The methodological approach is reconstruction. The study presents two thesis, a descriptive one, and a theoretical one. The descriptive thesis supports that in contemporary social theory the idea of cosmopolitanism is differentiated in three meaning dimensions ¿ as a diagnosis of the present time, as theoretical foundation and experimental methodology, and as a political project. The theoretical thesis is based on the identification of insufficiencies in established modernization theories which address globalization and cosmopolitanism. In this context, Jürgen Habermas' and Ulrich Beck's theoretical programs are prominent. Despite its innovations, I argue that such widening of the research scope has insufficiencies in the theoretical, methodological and normative spheres. Such insufficiencies come from conceiving modernization only as societal rationalization: they can be interpreted as a consequence of the metatheoretical presupposition of the deduction of the whole (modernization) by the effect (rationalization) introduced in the part (society). On this account, some alternatives to these insufficiencies are elaborated by the post/decolonial version of cosmopolitanism. To understand a modernization that globalizes, it is argued to be necessary to start from the metatheoretical presupposition of the deduction of the whole from the relationship between its parts (between societies). Therefore, a reconstructive research program is outlined. This program considers initially key-aspects of the cultural experience of globalization uncovered by applied studies on current cosmopolitanism. Hence, an interpretation of the cultural experience of globalization as hermeneutical experience is introduced through a close dialogue with the Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics. Thus conceived, cultural experience of globalization evokes an indiciary concept of intercultural understanding. This concept is defined by two internally connected spheres, a hermeneutical one, and a theoretical-sociological one. In the hermeneutical sphere, three fundamental aspects of language use are distinguished: the semantically "floating" character os the word, the intersubjective binding nature of language use, and the analogy principle as mediation between thought and language. In the theoretical-sociological sphere, we turn to the problematic connection between culture and episteme in the context of truth claim and to learning processes mediatized by intercultural understanding. From this perspective, a bidimensional concept of modernization is considered: on the one hand, we have the deduction of the whole from its part as metatheoretical presupposition, the communicatively conceived mutual understanding, the social evolution, and the modernization as societal rationalization; on the other hand, we have the deduction of the whole from the relationship between its parts as metatheoretical presupposition, the hermeneutically conceived intercultural understanding, the cultural coevolution, and the modernization as globalization. It is then suggested two methodological orientations: the diagnosis of present time should be oriented to phenomena that illuminate the historical entanglement between cultures ¿ in general terms, between societies ¿ and by cooperation as a procedural research practice. Finally, in a politico-normative sphere, it is suggested that this diagnosis can be taken as a critical starting point for normative criticism and for shaping a cosmopolitan world order, which is guided by the human rights observance. In this last sphere, three orientations are distinguished, a dialogic-normative one, a legal-juridical one, and a political one (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/01733-6 - Trajectories of cosmopolitanism |
| Grantee: | Estevão Mota Gomes Ribas Bosco |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |