Pensar lo social como si Dios existiera: Preparando el fin de la posmodernidad

The world is changing. Perhaps what is failing is not reality, but the way we think about it. What if, to understand the society to come, we had to think differently? Modernity is coming to an end. And with it, the categories through which we have thought about the social for centuries are beginning to show their limits. In this essay, Professor of Sociology José Pérez Adán proposes a radical shift: to recover a way of thinking about the social that modernity itself had discarded. Thinking as if God existed--from what the author calls Moral Sociology--allows us to shed light on phenomena that today remain hidden or misinterpreted. The loss of the common good, the dissolution of the subject, the rise of individualism, and the inability to sustain lasting bonds are not fleeting anomalies, but symptoms of a deeper shift in the times. The exclusion of any transcendent reference has impoverished our understanding of society and weakened the very foundations of coexistence. THE END OF A CULTURAL ERA We are facing a paradigm shift, and that shift demands that we reexamine the ideas through which we think about the social realm and the intellectual tools with which we will confront it. This book invites us to prepare for it. It proposes recovering forgotten categories, broadening our concept of rationality, and recognizing the role that spirituality can play in the new cultural horizon.