Beyond modernity

An analysis of postmodernism in philosophy

Abstract

This paper is about what we call “postmodern thinking” in Philosophy. For that, we highlight the philosophical perspective sent by some authors, due to the postmodern, moving towards the Cartesian concept of rationality, which helps us to situate the understanding of reason, in Modernity, and which is ‘rejected’ with the entry of the postmodern world. Following Descartes, with regard to the topic discussed here, the concept of modern reason is focused, as well as his understanding of the subject, precisely because of the understanding that modernity is distinguished – from other eras – by the relationship established between man and the reality that involves him. From this point onwards, the discussion takes place around the postmodern concept of rationality, considering the question of what would be the currently possible path for a reflection on human beings in their relationship with themselves, with others and with the world. In this direction, it is admitted to reflect on a philosophy that provides a solution to the problem of existence, and that does not conform to the understandings already known, insofar as it discusses the passage that the conception of rationality suffered from modernity to postmodernity.