ABSTRACT
Yet, no alternative has been created to this “new” way of managing public affairs in the developed capitalist countries. In this context, it is believed by conventional wisdom that we are going through a “post”-era, in which all traditional disputes have been “settled.” However, this situa tion does not signify the end of anything, given that nothing really ends in society, politics, ideology and history. The social differentiations which generate conflict and transformation have certainly not come to an end. Neither are we going through the era which, with some embarrassment, has been dubbed post-modern, post-capitalist, post-work-based. We are never theless going through an era that favors a way of thinking characterized by global questioning and criticism, a way of thinking, that is, that entails various types of “post-thinking,” i. e. of post-theoretical and post-practical reflection on the preconditions of thinking and acting.
