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[The sanitary question in the modernity-postmodernity debate]
1Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, 13084-100, Brasil.
Cadernos De Saude Publica
|December 1, 1994
Summary
This study examines the sanitary question within modernity and postmodernity debates. It proposes a philosophical perspective on political transformation, emphasizing the subject's role in societal change.
Area of Science:
- Philosophy of Science
- Social Theory
Context:
- The study addresses the
- sanitary question
- within the philosophical discourse on modernity and postmodernity, highlighting a crisis in modern thought and postmodernity's ideological tendencies.
Purpose:
- To critically analyze the sanitary question through a philosophical lens.
- To question the ideological trajectory of postmodernity and its impact on critical inquiry.
- To propose an alternative political framework centered on potentiality and subjective agency.
Summary:
- The research investigates the sanitary question, contrasting the perceived crisis of modernity with postmodernity's ideological inclinations.
- It critiques postmodernism for potentially limiting critical perspectives.
- An alternative political model is presented, focusing on the capacity for change and the active role of the subject in driving transformations.
Impact:
- Offers a novel philosophical perspective on the sanitary question and its relation to broader societal and political debates.
- Encourages a re-evaluation of political thought by emphasizing potentiality and subjective agency in transformative processes.
- Provides a framework for understanding contemporary challenges through the lens of modernity and postmodernity.
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