For decades, scholars have been calling into question the
universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence
of defined autonomous categories-such as religion, science, and
art-has collapsed under the weight of postmodern critiques, calling
into question the possibility of progress and even the value of
knowledge. Jason Ananda Josephson Storm aims to radicalize and move
beyond these deconstructive projects to offer a path forward for
the humanities and social sciences using a new model for theory he
calls metamodernism. Metamodernism works through the postmodern
critiques and uncovers the mechanisms that produce and maintain
concepts and social categories. In so doing, Storm provides a new,
radical account of society's ever-changing nature-what he calls a
"Process Social Ontology"-and its materialization in temporary
zones of stability or "social kinds." Storm then formulates a fresh
approach to philosophy of language by looking beyond the typical
theorizing that focuses solely on human language production,
showing us instead how our own sign-making is actually on a
continuum with animal and plant communication. Storm also considers
fundamental issues of the relationship between knowledge and value,
promoting a turn toward humble, emancipatory knowledge that
recognizes the existence of multiple modes of the real.
Metamodernism is a revolutionary manifesto for research in the
human sciences that offers a new way through postmodern skepticism
to envision a more inclusive future of theory in which new forms of
both progress and knowledge can be realized.
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