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Toward a New Common Sense

Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition

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ID11094508
AuthorsRichard Warren Perry
Year1997
Volume26
Issue2
Pages213
Publication date1997-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofToward a new common sense: Law, Science Andpolitics in the Paradigmatic Transition, Boaventura De Sousa Santos, 1995
VenueContemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2076790
OpenAlexW1990223166
LanguageEN
Citations received1

Towards a New Common Sense argues for a thorough and incisive critique of modernity. Incapable of renewal, deplete of emancipatory values and current only as a result of its historical inertia. Modernity, Boaventura de Sousa Santos argues, can no longer serve as the ground upon which values and ethics, progressive laws and emancipatory powers are generated. Considering three key concepts (law, power and science), Santos emphasizes the impotence of modernity to dramatically transform daily life and practice. He gestures towards a new common sense which he locates in the transition to postmodernity

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