Modernity’s reflexivity makes its own rational grounds ultimately puzzling

Evidence

Rather than these developments taking us “beyond modernity,” they provide a fuller understanding of the reflexivity inherent in modernity itself. Modernity is not only unsettling because of the circularity of reason, but because the nature of that circularity is ultimately puzzling. How can we justify a commitment to reason in the name of reason? — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 124

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernity institutionalises doubt, making all knowledge claims inherently circular — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 408; Modernity’s reflexivity rests on cultural commitment and power, not pure reason — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 407; Modernity is defined by wholesale reflexivity, not merely love of the new. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 99 (+14 more)

Related

• Modernity’s reflexivity subverts reason’s claim to certitude. (similarity 0.93)
• Modernity’s core is an irreducible enigma that cannot be overcome (similarity 0.91)
• Modernity institutionalises doubt, making all knowledge claims inherently circular (similarity 0.88)
• Modernity’s reflexivity rests on cultural commitment and power, not pure reason (similarity 0.88)
• Modernity is defined by wholesale reflexivity, not merely love of the new. (similarity 0.86)
• Contemporary transformations are modernity’s self-radicalization, not its ending (similarity 0.83)
• Modernity consists in the destabilization of the subject, not mere progress (similarity 0.81)
• Circular theory that merely reaffirms known political conclusions produces no new knowledge. (similarity 0.81)
• Skepticism, modernism’s tool, is itself what killed the modern project. (similarity 0.80)
• New social knowledge alters the social world rather than merely describing it (similarity 0.80)
• In modernity tradition is justified only by knowledge not derived from tradition. (similarity 0.80)
• The feeling that systematic knowledge is impossible stems from uncontrollable modern events, not epistemology (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Modernity’s core is an irreducible enigma that cannot be overcome #corroborates (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 124