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Visions of transmodernity: ‘A new renaissance' of our human history?

In this paper I will engage with a broad range of literature that provides us with many signals and evidence of an emerging and significant paradigm shift in human evolution. In doing so, I will offer the concept of transmodernity as an umbrella term that connotes the emerging socio-cultural, economic, political and philosophical shift. My research across boundaries of many different fields such as critical economics, philosophy, subaltern and postcolonial studies, social anthropology and psychology, cultural studies, political science and social activism literature will illustrate how an integrated approach and dialogue is urgently needed, indeed more than ever before. Different authors use a variety of terms to capture what can essentially be described as the synchronised phenomenon of emerging higher collective consciousness— transmodernity paradigm (Ghisi) ; transmodern philosophy of political liberation (Dussel) ; Hegelian dialectical triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis (Magda) ; the reflective/living- systems paradigm (Elgin) ; the partnership model of caring economics (Eisler) ; the relational global consciousness of biosphere politics (Rifkin) ; love ethics (hooks) ; the circularity paradigm of interdependence (Steinem). With a reference to a variety of authors I will argue that the reason we do not hear much about this movement is because it is not centralised and coordinated under a single unifying name. 'Transmodernity' ropes together many concepts/tenets of other writings that do not necessarily use the same term, but I chose it in order to communicate the overall idea of the emerging paradigm shift as the next cultural and material development in human history. I have opted to use the concept as a medium to convey humanity's unified synchronicity, which is part of a transformation that can be claimed to be 'the new renaissance' of human history.

Comparative analysis; dialogue; integrated approach; paradigm shift; new renaissance; transmodernity

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