THE POLITICS OF MULTICULTURALISM AS REPARATION FOR WESTERN COLONIALISM: A CRITICAL APPROACH ON MODERNITY'S NORMATIVE PARADIGM

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  • Leno Francisco Danner

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https://doi.org/10.20911/21769389v46n144p149/2019

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This study starts from a criticism against the naturalization and depo­liticization of the normative paradigm of modernity. Such criticism was made by some contemporary philosophical-sociological theories that associated mo­dernity directly with universalism and conceived it as the final stage of human evolution (in terms of epistemological-moral consciousness, culture and material organization), as opposed to traditionalism. The article argues that modernity is not a universalistic epistemological-moral paradigm or a material and societal organization from which multiculturalism can be embraced, promoted and gui­ded, particularly in the international context. Consequently, I reject the direct association, proposed by such philosophical-sociological theories, of universa­lism, cosmopolitanism and globalization with the epistemological, cultural and economic modernization. In other words, universalism does not mean moderni­zation, as it does not justify the totalizing pursuit of modernity as a paradigm and a material-institutional form of life for all contexts and as a condition for their stability. I therefore propose a reformulation of the paradigm of modernity with the concept of Western colonialism reparation, which must start from the recognition of the historical-sociological blindness concerning the intrinsic link between the normativity of modernity and the Realpolitik of modern colonialism. Such blindness implies the statement that modernity is inherently self-reflexive, justifying it as the basic paradigm for the context of modernity as well as for the sphere of international politics. This would reinforce its permanence as a universalistic paradigm and cosmopolitan ethical-political project. Based on that separation, modernity can always function as the starting point and as the point of arrival to universalism, transforming modernization into universalism itself.

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Leno Francisco Danner

Doutor em Filosofia (PUC-RS). Professo de Filosofia e de Sociologia no Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal de Rondônia (UNIR).

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2019-05-02

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Danner, L. F. (2019). THE POLITICS OF MULTICULTURALISM AS REPARATION FOR WESTERN COLONIALISM: A CRITICAL APPROACH ON MODERNITY’S NORMATIVE PARADIGM. Síntese: Revista De Filosofia, 46(144), 149. https://doi.org/10.20911/21769389v46n144p149/2019

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