Between ontological shudders and new pulsations: a postmodern society and the required reconceptualization of human rights.

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1807-1384.2014v11n2p229

This article aims to undertake a reflection on the ups and downs of Postmodernity, considering the dynamics of social change wrought in their context and the modification of the parameters of sociability of the postmodern man, seeking to relate them to a practical, multicultural and especially effective conception of the human rights. In Postmodernity, a growing power of the social actors and emancipation from the traditional structures become evident. The space occupied by the traditional modern structures is reduced daily. The individual is becoming less controlled by the tradition and the convention, the modernization requires from them more information, education and democratization, what allows a criticism of the reality and a reflection on himself. The identities aren’t bound exclusively to the conflicts between capital and work but, but are closely linked to the conflict “emancipation X oppression”. These diverse emancipations are precisely the expression of the Postmodernity. The society can’t stand a linear, homogenizing, monocentric cultural view. The legal-positive and formalistic conception of the fundamental rights aren’t sufficient to the new society. The human rights must be faced as fruit of our social practices and human relations, seeking to consolidate new forms of normativity, which meet the needs of the new collectivities and new sociabilities.