From the mirages of social cognition

Abstract

The article raises the relevant problem of searching for a fundamentally new methodology of social cognition that will adequately reflect the realities of modern society, which represents a qualitatively different formation in comparison with the previous ones – innovative, highly dynamic, polyphonic, paradoxical and even absurd. We are at the «threshold» of an unknown social reality. The course of social development itself refutes the classical reductionist attitudes of social philosophy and proves their inconsistency in their striving for absolutism, their lifelessness and even inhumanity and danger, leading to many ideological aberrations, social tension and social cataclysms. Conclusions are drawn that the society of the twenty-first century needs qualitatively new paradigms of social cognition and understanding. This is a completely different naturalness, different sociality, different «humanity».