Towards Asignifying Modernity: A Critique on the Interests that Shaped Social Sciences and Social Work

20 Pages Posted: 23 Apr 2016

Date Written: April 21, 2016

Abstract

The paper is about interests. It attempts to point out that politics of historically sustained and discursively reproduced interests constitute the assemblage of modernity. The politics is traced through exploring how social sciences and social work replaced political philosophy and charity within discursive planes of modernity yielding to the interests forming them. The first part of the paper discusses modernity as the subjective individuation of its formative interests. Second part deliberates on semantic and incorporeal significations that presented modernity as tightly networked truth. It is argued that the modern social is a hierarchically ordered predatory force field sustained through networks of significations.Towards the end, in lieu of the conclusion, the paper invites for discussions counter-signifying modernity.

Keywords: asignify, discourse, interest, manifold, metaphysics, milieu, modernity, social, work, social work

Suggested Citation

Prabakaran, Madhu, Towards Asignifying Modernity: A Critique on the Interests that Shaped Social Sciences and Social Work (April 21, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2768192 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2768192

Madhu Prabakaran (Contact Author)

IMS Unison University ( email )

Makkawala Greens
Marjorie Road diversion
Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248009
India

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