Amid Crises: Reflections from Ethics and Politics
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Abstract
In this reflection paper, the authors study the concept of crisis as a category which accounts for the unreasonable effects of advanced capitalist modernization as a systemic process that has an impact on the institutions of the social world and produces conflicts with both ethical and political important consequences. They analyze the evolution of the concept as well as its connection with the new configurations of power in current society, highlighting the logics that permeate the way those systems work. At the end, they make some regulatory suggestions about topics such as a critical and emancipatory ethics, human rights, and democracy
Keywords:
crisis, modernization, capitalism, conflicts, human rights