Cognitive Labyrinths of Social Creativity

Abstract

The article raises the urgent problem of finding a relevant methodology of modern social cognition. This methodology should be able to adequately reflect modern complex, creative realities of our society which provides a qualitatively different education compared to the previous ones — innovative, super dynamic, polyphonic, paradoxical, and even absurd. We are on the “threshold” of an unknown social reality. The current course of social development categorically refutes the classical principles of social philosophy. It proves their failure in striving for absolutization, idealization, their lifelessness, and even inhumanity, as well as danger, leading to many ideological delusions, social tension, and social cataclysms. It became indisputable that the society of the XXI century needs qualitatively new paradigms of social cognition and understanding. This is a fundamentally different naturalness, a different sociality, a different “humanity.” The transformation of classical social philosophy into nonclassical and post-non-classical socio-philosophical discourses was undoubtedly caused by the need to search for new relevant cognitive paradigms geared towards understanding a person, whose existence in the face of modern civilizational challenges of heterogeneous sociality has become extremely tense and acutely problematic. The article attempts to substantiate a new humanitarian concept of a post-nonclassical socio-philosophical paradigm that focuses on the singularity of human existence, self-organizing within the boundaries of the polystructural social proliferation of modern society, in the cognitive and ontological space that legitimizes uncertainty. “Uncertainty” is a topical word and a concept of modern scientific and everyday culture, a fundamental characteristic of modernity. However, the talk is not about the inflation of truth but about the search for a new social research paradigm capable of reflecting the “turbulent” processes of modern society that eliminate classical social attitudes.