Transmodern War Contexts in English Literature

Aliaga-Lavrijsen, J.

Resumen: In many contemporary literary texts in English, there is sufficient evidence of a paradigm shift taking place since the 1980s that involves the assimilation and transcendence of Modernity and Postmodernity into what philosopher Rodriguez Magda and other authors—such as Enrique Dussel, Marc Luyckx Ghisi, Etienne Le Roy, Nicanor Perlas, and Ziauddin Sardar, among others—have called “Transmodernity.” Transmodernity would be characterized by a critique of the two earlier periods from the material, social, and cultural viewpoint. According to Rodriguez Magda, Transmodernity would constitute “in the first place, the description of a globalised, rhizomatic, technological society, developed from the first world, confronted with its others, while at the same time it penetrates and assumes them; and secondly, it constitutes the effort to transcend this hyperreal, relativistic enclosure”. It would not be far-fetched to state that this changing and evolving social and cultural reality inevitably leads to a change in human perception. Some authors have noted that there are evident signs of the fact that human consciousness is currently evolving toward a new state, toward a “global relational consciousness [that] goes beyond the Western ideology and tries to connect the human race to a new shared story” ...

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/soc8020023

Año: 2018

Publicado en: SOCIETIES 8, 2 (2018), 23 [2 pp]
ISSN: 2075-4698

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)