Late modernity and its language

Grünhut, Zoltán (2025) Late modernity and its language. COGITO: MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH JOURNAL, 17 (2). pp. 210-227. ISSN 2068-6706

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Abstract

The current paper theorizes the ontological dissimilarities between Classic and Late Modernity. It compares the classic modern logic of ‘either/or,’ which is embodied in certain grand-narratives and social-cultural patterns, to the late modern logic of ‘both/and’, which encourages agents to rely on their subjective actorness, and revise all sorts of external references in a reflexive and critical way. The proposed argument suggests that the various structural and individual dynamics of Late Modernity are tracing back to one generative shift, which is the collapse of Truth-based Rationality that contrasts the self to the Other and its otherness by biased framings formulated in metaculturally patriarchal language-forms.

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