The problem of history in the debate "modernity versus postmodernity": the impacts on the notions of fragmentation and globalization

Abstract

This article is based on the premise that peoples and their cultures are being incorporated into a totalitarian and unifying civilizing process which generates extremely conflicting and antagonistic situations. This state of affairs, for some time, has been raising important theoretical debates that emerge from two distinct epistemological roots: one that understands the current moment as part of a given historical process, representing a continuity of something that was sown in the dawn of modernity ; and another that understands it as a radical disconnect from the modern order, with no procedural explanation about the same since it represents a discontinuity rather than a continuity with such a status quo. In this essay we intend to discuss some implications that this debate raises.