Cultura pós-moderna: uma análise das metamorfoses sociais a partir de Zygmunt Bauman

Abstract

The present work is entitled: Postmodern culture: an analysis of social metamorphoses from Zygmunt Bauman's perspective. The work aims to analyze postmodern culture in the light of Zygmunt Bauman's thought. At first glance, postmodernity is conceived as the era after modernity. Chronologically, it includes, although not uniformly, the 20th century to this point. From a sociological and philosophical point of view, postmodernity is a period in which major social and economic transformations have taken place, as a result, on the one hand, of the decline of the metanarratives preached by modernity and, on the other hand, as a result of modernity having allegedly managed to emancipate man. The choice of the theme is due to the need to understand some of the issues inherent to the present times, with emphasis on those that constitute the peculiar marks of liquid modernity. At a social level, the work shows that, despite the negative diagnosis of the current reality, there is still some hope. To demonstrate this idea, Bauman uses the ideas of Lévinas, who reiterates the need to take unconditional responsibility for the Other, even in an individualistic world. Today, more than ever, humanity needs to rethink the crises that arise, in order to come up with proposals for solving them. Understanding the metamorphoses that occur in postmodernity constitutes a mechanism for anticipating certain points, while also serving as a facilitator of the process of creating utopias. In terms of methods, a bibliographic review was used and, as a technique, textual hermeneutics was used.