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The Mass Man, the One-Dimensional Man, and the Social Production of Networked Ignorance
This article examines the paradigms of the mass man (Ortega y Gasset) and the one-dimensional man (Marcuse) as analytical frameworks for understanding the social production of ignorance in contemporary networked societies. →
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Agnoiología Fenomenológica : Teoría de la ignorancia
La expresión ‘Agnoiología’, como una Teoría General de la Ignorancia, fue acuñada en ‘Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being’ por James Frederick Ferrier (1854), al que también se debe el término ‘Epistemología’. La Teoría de la Ignorancia que se expone aquí se construye, sin embargo, desde una óptica fenomenológica, diverge de la… →
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Phenomenological Agnoiology: A theory of ignorance
The term agnoiology, conceived as a General Theory of Ignorance, was coined by James Frederick Ferrier in Institutes of Metaphysic: The Theory of Knowing and Being (1854), a work to which we also owe the term epistemology. In what is commonly described as postmodernity, ignorance has once again become a central concern. It is therefore… →
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The ‘common sense’ and the meaning of ‘meaning’
Until now, we have persistently asked about the meaning of history and the role played by religious beliefs and ideologies in shaping it, within a world marked by constant change and evolution. With postmodernity, however, new intellectual and emotional frameworks for understanding the world, society, and even the meaning of life itself have emerged. Today… →