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Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition.

1997; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 26; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2076790

1939-8638

Richard W. Perry, Boaventura de Sousa Santos,

Ethics and bioethics in healthcare

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.