The meeting of the waters: Brief introductory notes about post-modernity

Abstract

This article aims to discuss, in an introductory manner, the implications of the post-modern condition in the social theory and contemporary sociabilities. To do so, it is initially drawn a broader definition of the subject from its mutual comparison with the characteristics of modernity, with emphasis on its relative critique to the grand narratives, modern binary thinking and the theoretical aspects that the use of the prefix post brings out. In addition, we seek to recover contributions to the postmodern debate, based on the ideas, among others, of Maffesoli, Huyssen, Vattimo, Bauman, Hall, Jameson, Derrida and Lyotard. The text is devoted to reflect on some of the many developments about the post issue after several discussions promoted in the humanities, such as the identity dynamics and the post-colonialists theorists approach.