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LANZ, Rigoberto. The art of Thinking Without Paradigms. Enlace [online]. 2007, vol.4, n.3, pp.93-102. ISSN 1690-7515.

This essay makes a very analytical and critical reflection about the paradigm crisis of modern rationality. Namely, a crisis that undermines the "fundamentals" of what was once understood as scientific reason, epistemic subject, progress in History and education. The uniformity of thought organized in disciplines, in a normative of empirical and causal explanation, in a vision of reality from "meta-stories", has come to an end. Postmodern thought attempts to offer an exit out of this crisis from another understanding and hermeneutic of complex, non-linear sense for our perception of reality. Uncertainties create new random, weak and instant movements, that break the unifying rationality of modernity and give way to post-modernity’s deconstructive rationality, that proposes the a recreational task of generation of new knowledge.

Palavras-chave : Modernity; Paradigm Crisis; Post-Modernity; Knowledge.