Post-Crisis Reckoning: Making Sense of Early 21st-Century Civilizational Ruptures
As the world is struggling with the Covid crisis and its numerous aftereffects, it is easy to forget that the present pandemic is only the latest of a whole series of paradigm-changing 21st-century crises. Indeed, the word “crisis” has become one of the key concepts for the understanding of the...
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| Language: | deu |
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Scientia Publishing House
2021-11-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica |
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| Online Access: | https://acta.sapientia.ro/content/docs/post-crisis-reckoning-making-sense-of-ea.pdf |
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| Summary: | As the world is struggling with the Covid crisis and its numerous
aftereffects, it is easy to forget that the present pandemic is only the latest
of a whole series of paradigm-changing 21st-century crises. Indeed, the
word “crisis” has become one of the key concepts for the understanding
of the early 21st century. Thus, crisis seems very much to be the default
position of the 21st century, the new norm. In this paper, I argue that the 21st
century has a recognizably different cultural logic from what the previous
one had: most of our social, ideological, political, financial, and ecological
paradigms are either changing or will (or must) change soon. As most of our
critical concepts, intellectual tools, and ideological frameworks were made
during the boom years of the late 20th century, they are clearly outdated
and inadequate today. Thus, in this paper, through taking account of these
shifting intellectual and artistic paradigms, I attempt to indicate how the
present crisis of knowledge and sense-making may be turned into a process
of knowing and making sense of crisis, and thus help us meet the challenges
of the new century. It is often through these fault-lines, breakdowns, and
inconsistencies of our narratives that one may recognize those pre-crisis
assumptions that we have to critically re-evaluate and update in order to
understand the new century. |
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| ISSN: | 2067-5151 2068-2956 |