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Sociology, Contingency and Utopia

Sociology, Contingency and Utopia <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>On the level of phenomena the observers of society have noticed an increase of polymorphism, of indeterminacy. This contingent society points us — theoretically and through our experience — to possibility and its (outer) limits. Contingency always means limitation, since possibility emerges only from its background and borderline: the impossible is the frame. And the task. The horizon shall be — Utopia: the sphere of imagination which belongs to the impossible but creates possibility. Since there is a greater truth than the truth of the factual and that is the reality of possibility. We are obliged to this reality: conflicting with the dictatorship of the factual.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Social Science Brill

Sociology, Contingency and Utopia

Asian Journal of Social Science , Volume 37 (3): 408 – Jan 1, 2009

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1568-4849
eISSN
1568-5314
DOI
10.1163/156853109X436793
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>On the level of phenomena the observers of society have noticed an increase of polymorphism, of indeterminacy. This contingent society points us — theoretically and through our experience — to possibility and its (outer) limits. Contingency always means limitation, since possibility emerges only from its background and borderline: the impossible is the frame. And the task. The horizon shall be — Utopia: the sphere of imagination which belongs to the impossible but creates possibility. Since there is a greater truth than the truth of the factual and that is the reality of possibility. We are obliged to this reality: conflicting with the dictatorship of the factual.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

Journal

Asian Journal of Social ScienceBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2009

Keywords: UTOPIA; MODERNISATION; ETHICS; JUSTICE; SOCIETY; CONTINGENCY

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