Hijos de nuestro tiempo: una mirada crítica hacia la modernidad y la postmodernidad.

Abstract

The present research paper is a descriptive and critical analysis of the current beliefs and the ideological bases which underlying in modern and posmodern society at once and have largely determined the human being and his way of being and interacting with the world. From modernity we will analyze secularization, the loss of identity, the configuration of a technical scientific mentality, the emancipatory will, faith in progress, tolerance and the bourgeois capitalist spirit. From postmodernism, we will reflect on emptiness and disenchantment; the time of "myself" and "intimacy" ; neoneocismism ; hedonism and consumption; the weak thought that has socialized triviality; the new interpretation of the values of freedom, tolerance and autonomy of the "self", the new paradigms, especially of women, and the discrediting of family and natality as a gift. It is a critical work that shows and disassembles the superficial look in which we are located and defines the present moment, and tries to give a more hopeful and transcendent vision of possibility of projecting ourselves in the future, stripping ourselves of what reduces us and shrinks us to build ourselves in a more just world, committed to "the other" and its surroundings.