Postmoderne und/oder Rationalität [antikvár]

Introduction Between Neopositivism, Neoliberalism and Postmodernism The last thirty years of the philosophy gave two main trends of philosophical thinking the active role of effectively shaping history and society. One of them was the renaissance of the epistemological methodology and theory-building of the neoliberalism-neopositivism, which effectively restored the continuity of the positivism of the former Vienna Circle, as well as, expressed the new, anticommunist, neoliberal concepts in the field of politics, economy and philosophical methodology of those, who had been disappointed in Marxism already in the thirties. When the New-Left unexpectedly declined in the seventies, this trend gained a global and strategically decisive role. The other trend, which effectively shaped history and society, was the complexity of the postmodemist way of thinking, which alsó gained a global and strategically decisive position in the seventies, after the sudden and simultaneous fali of neomarxism and structuralism. In spite of the fact that the last thirty years passed under the dual and simultaneous hegemony of neopositivism and neoliberalism, the two trends have very rarely made open contact with each other. However, significant symmetry-relations can be pointed out between the two trends of the era. Symmetry-relations are common phenomena in the history of philosophy in respect to philosophical trends because there are no conceptional, discursive, or critical relationships between them. Therefore the reconstruction of the analogies between neoliberalism-neopositivism and postmodernism do not constitute an extremely special approach. Three additional aspects make this experiment a special one. On the one hand both neoliberalism-neopositivism and postmodernism, are complexes by nature, which means that both trends are extremely multiple and divided in a highly complicated way Let us only see, how long was, and how many accidental elements 10 burdened the developmental process during which the concept of postmodernism - which we use nowadays - took shape. Another wholesome example is that the close inherence of the three main elements of the complex of neoliberalismneopositivism (epistemology - theory of sciences, political theory based on humán rights, and economic theory) has not become completely transparent for broader social groups, yethas far reaching consequences even in respect of the history of the world.