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Vol. 63 No. 4 (2019): POLES IN THE WORLD OF LATE CAPITALISM

Articles and essays

Postmodernity in Corporate Biographies: The Perspective of Relational Epistemology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35757/KiS.2019.63.4.5
Submitted: March 8, 2020
Published: December 27, 2019

Abstract

In this article the author intend to use an epistemological concept and its categories of description to analyse two specially chosen biographies reflecting diverse postmodern life patterns. Postmodernity, or in fact the postmodern order, refers to the concept of order-making dimensions discussed in the previous article concerning hypermodernity. It is treated there as casual and variable with regard to the category of relations and work, and the only certainty for the individual, in regard to future possibilities or necessities, is the individual’s own identity. This article adds the category of resonance to the characteristics of postmodernity, as a synonym for a person’s primary entanglement in the world. It is a category of which individuals are increasingly aware, on which they reflect, and which they make an object of their experience.

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