ABSTRACT
The target of this book is to show the power of social relations in generating a new society beyond modernity, which is called aftermodern. To understand this epochal change, the book proposes to equip us with a new ontological and epistemological paradigm that is called “relational thinking.” The underlying imperative of this perspective is the need to empower our culture of relationships. Relationships are ambivalent and enigmatic because they can generate good or evil and therefore require competent observation and evaluation. They are a reality different from our subjective feelings or ideas. Normally, we do not see them, because they are immaterial and invisible like air. Precisely, for this reason, they have the power to manage us if we do not know how to map and handle them. Hence, there comes the challenge. Asking whether aftermodern society will be better or worse than modern society makes no sense, because comparison is not possible. The relational society that lies in our horizon is not necessarily good or bad in itself. It can be both. In this, it reveals that it is still human.
