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The interactions of complex knowledge. The interrelation of humanities, sciences and knowledge in postmodern and decolonial times
| Resumo: | The relationship between the Western university and the social and ecological environment in times of late modernity is complex because it moves between the poles of a model of civilization in crisis and the dawn of a new configuration of knowledge that makes life of both the planet and Humanity sustainable. It is here that we find the coordinates of that complex knowledge in which the university and the social movements of systemic victims – as witnesses of the other side of modernity – open up to a new epistemic relation. At this crucial time, it is urgent to rescue the cognitive status of traditional knowledge denied by instrumental rationality, in order to preserve life, in a dialogue with the Western culture's own critical thinking, which is finally conscious of its own limits. A model of decolonial theology is thus drawn, in its early stages – as part of a critical dialogue – to construct a new cultural, political, and spiritual ethos in theses times marked by an apocalyptic rationality. Rethinking interdisciplinarity therefore requires not only a scientific dialogue, but also the capacity to construct knowledge as an “ecology of knowledges”, beyond a hegemonic model of knowledge based on an instrumental rationality, that is coming to an end. Within this dialogue, theology has an irrevocable role, which is to return to its messianic and kairological intentionality, to think about the redemption that takes place in this “time of the end”. Keywords: Interdisciplinary; Post-modernity; Decolonial Thought; Apocalypse; Messianism. |
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| Autores principais: | Mendoza-Álvarez, Carlos |
| Ano: | 2019 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | unknown |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
| Origem: | Ephata |
| Resumo: | The relationship between the Western university and the social and ecological environment in times of late modernity is complex because it moves between the poles of a model of civilization in crisis and the dawn of a new configuration of knowledge that makes life of both the planet and Humanity sustainable. It is here that we find the coordinates of that complex knowledge in which the university and the social movements of systemic victims – as witnesses of the other side of modernity – open up to a new epistemic relation. At this crucial time, it is urgent to rescue the cognitive status of traditional knowledge denied by instrumental rationality, in order to preserve life, in a dialogue with the Western culture's own critical thinking, which is finally conscious of its own limits. A model of decolonial theology is thus drawn, in its early stages – as part of a critical dialogue – to construct a new cultural, political, and spiritual ethos in theses times marked by an apocalyptic rationality. Rethinking interdisciplinarity therefore requires not only a scientific dialogue, but also the capacity to construct knowledge as an “ecology of knowledges”, beyond a hegemonic model of knowledge based on an instrumental rationality, that is coming to an end. Within this dialogue, theology has an irrevocable role, which is to return to its messianic and kairological intentionality, to think about the redemption that takes place in this “time of the end”. Keywords: Interdisciplinary; Post-modernity; Decolonial Thought; Apocalypse; Messianism. |
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