Summary Of "The Transparent Society" By Gianni Vattimo: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

We have summarized here the essential of this book by the author.
Modernization, as described by Weber and as it has been carried out by the capitalism of Protestant Europe, has transformed existence into a steel cage that has consolidated itself in much of the planet and particularly in the West.
Currently, a possibility of diverse existence opens up, a passage that crosses modernity and that can be described as a passage to a situation that assigns a central role to those cultures that, until now, have less shared the program of modernization and business. of the rigorous rationalization imposed both on the economy and on social life and on individual existence itself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Nov 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201692445

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of The Transparent Society By Gianni Vattimo

UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Published by BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU, 2021.

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SUMMARY OF THE TRANSPARENT SOCIETY BY GIANNI VATTIMO

First edition. November 25, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU.

ISBN: 979-8201692445

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THE TRANSPARENT SOCIETY

Preface to the Spanish edition

Today's Spain is undoubtedly one of the models of postmodern society.

It can oppose the idea of ​​a Weberian, capitalist-ascetic-Protestant rationalization and modernization, a less rigid, mechanical and repressive conception of modernity.

Modernization, as described by Weber and as it has been carried out by the capitalism of Protestant Europe, has transformed existence into a steel cage that has consolidated itself in much of the planet and particularly in the West.

Currently, a possibility of diverse existence opens up, a passage that crosses modernity and that can be described as a passage to a situation that assigns a central role to those cultures that, until now, have less shared the program of modernization and business. of the rigorous rationalization imposed both on the economy and on social life and on individual existence itself.

If the modern was guided by Anglo-Saxon cultures, couldn't postmodernity be the age of Latin cultures?

A postmodernity that was realized as a lighter form of social rationality, less dominated by the realism of calculating reason and capitalist, bureaucratic, or revolutionary-Leninist asceticism is not a passive acceptance of things, free from any utopian dimension, but that proposes a utopia worthy of the maximum respect: an emancipation without having to go through the violence that the revolution entails, an emancipation that frees existence to its aspects of joy, that brings us closer to happiness, or at least to a good life, through a small distortion of the mediatizations of our life - of consumerism, of exchange-value inflation, etc. -

POST-MODERN: A TRANSPARENT SOCIETY?

The term postmodern is linked to the fact that the society in which we live is a society of generalized communication, the society of the mass media.

First of all, we speak of postmodern because we consider that, in some of its essential aspects, MODERNITY HAS CONCLUDED, modernity as the time in which being modern becomes a determining value. Period characterized by an increasingly intense cult for the new and the original that did not exist in previous times, the consideration of human history as a progressive process of emancipation, as the increasingly perfect realization of the ideal man.

The condition for conceiving history as the progressive realization of authentic humanity is that it can be seen as a unitary process. MODERNITY ENDS WHEN IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE TO TALK ABOUT HISTORY AS SOMETHING UNITARY. Indeed, such a vision of history implied the existence of a center around which events could gather and order.

Philosophy, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, has subjected the idea of ​​a unitary history to a radical critique, revealing the ideological character of such representations.

The vision of history as a unitary process does not transmit from the past everything that has happened, but only the events related to the people that it tells, of the nobles, of the monarchs, or of the bourgeoisie when it becomes a class of power. The poor, however, or those aspects of life that are considered low do not make history.

According to a vision already initiated by Marx and Nietzsche, it leads to the dissolution of the idea of ​​history as a unitary course; there is no single story, there are images of the past from different points of view and it is illusory to think that there is a single point of view, capable of unifying all the rest.

The crisis of the idea of ​​history entails that of the idea of ​​progress: if there is not a unitary course of human events, it cannot be sustained either that they advance towards an end, that they carry out a rational plan of improvement, education and emancipation.

On the other hand, the end that according to modernity governed the course of events was a certain ideal of man.

The enlightened, Hegel, Marx, the positivists, thought that the meaning of history lay in the realization of civilization: of the figure of modern European man. Progress was conceived assuming as a criterion only a certain ideal of man; It is something like saying: we Europeans are the best form of humanity, the entire course of history is ordered to realize this ideal.

The crisis of this idea is due to several factors: the so-called primitive peoples, colonized by Europeans in the name of the right right of the higher and more evolved civilization, have rebelled.

The European ideal of humanity has been revealed as one more ideal among others, not necessarily worse, that cannot, without violence, claim to establish itself as the true essence of man, of every man.

Another factor has been the advent of the communication society. I