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Transcending Modernity with Relational Thinking

I: The emergence of aftermodernity Beyond the modern dilemma freedom (lib) vs control (lab): What after?The modern freedom vs control dialectic leads to paradoxes and is challenged by empirical reality Attempts to reconcile freedom and control conducted within modernity Limitations and obsolescence of the libllab paradigm A relational approach to freedom vs control dilemmas in an aftermodern society: possible scenarios Summary Overcoming the market/state binary code How to explain the recurrent system crises?Should we adapt to a Darwinian evolution?Rethinking civil society beyond modernity A relational society needs a “relational state”Summary: a new way of thinking and making society Shedding light on society through a relational (not relationist) gaze Which sociological look do we need to see the relational society?The issue of the scientific gaze The relational gaze The difference between observing and gazing What do we mean by “relational”?The sociological gaze needs a relational reflexivity Summary II: Insights into the morphogenetic changes of social morality Relational society as a morphogenetic configuration How do we conceive of society?A theory of social relations and their structure The relation as generative mechanism The social relation as molecule of the social From modern to aftermodern relationality Structural effects and relational effects: the added social value of social relations Societal morphogenesis as a surplus of relational forms How social relations realise social morphogenesis Summary The morphogenesis of social morality Where the agency/structure debate has failed Ail alternative view The obsolescence of classic paradigms Why relationality matters in generating different morals The morality of welfare and its morphogenesis The societal moral fabric in the era of globalisation Summary Morality and social networks Who or what is responsible for the market outcomes?Questioning the prevailing explanations of causality The market as a black box The moral criteria for imputing responsibility: the role of reflexivity and of the relational subject Summary: can we civilise the market?III: Why and how can the new society be “good”?What does the good life consist of?What is a “good life”?Classical and modern conceptions of human happiness The opportunities offered by the morals prevailing in modernity How globalisation redefines the logic of opportunity In search for a relational logic of happiness The morality of social relations: empirical examples Which eudemonic morality emerges through these phenomena?The relational character of the moral good Summary: the good life through social relations The emergence of new social subjects generating relational goods Identity and relationship: “distinguish to unite”The concept of identity How to connect identity and relationship?Overcoming unrelated thought with relational thinking Recognising an identity means creating a relationship What is “social” in the relational subject?How the relational subject connects personal and collective identity in the morphogenetic process Perspectives: human identity vis-a-vis post-/trans-huinan IV: The hybridisation of society: shall we forget about its human character?The new scenario of a hybridised society The topic and its rationale The process of hybridisation of identities and relations The emergence of hybridised institutions and organisations Three scenarios dealing with the processes of hybridisation Prospects: Should we abandon the dream of a human(e) society?Can society retain its human qualities and properties?The two currently prevailing scenarios of societal evolution A third scenario The distinction hunian/non-hunian is a transcendental relation containing an enigma Any humanism requires a certain social ontology of relationalitv When a social form can be called human?In the end: confronting the dissolution of humanity with relational thinking

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