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(2000) Social creativity, collective subjectivity and contemporary modernity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Modernity has reached an impasse at the end of the twentieth century. While to a great extent accomplished, however selectively and one-sidedly, it has lost much of its contradictory dynamics. With the defeat of Marxist socialism and the crisis of state-organized social regulation, the market has been seen as the only possibility for the institution of social order. This has been accompanied by a crisis of dialectical thinking. In the natural sciences, chaos theory shuns the idea of equilibrium and states the creative character of the disorganization of natural systems (cf. Prigogine and Stengers, 1979). However, contemporary ideologies have denied this possibility. The inevitable outcome is the closure of the historical horizon. Modernity was cast as an eminently dialectical project but today — whether because it is believed that modernity has been accomplished or because modern hopes and expectations have been given up — dialectics has been repeatedly stated as irrelevant (Bodei, 1985).
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Domingues, J. (2000). Dialectics and modernity, autonomy and solidarity, in Social creativity, collective subjectivity and contemporary modernity, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 135-155.
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