BRAVE-NEW-WORLD - THE NEW CONTEXT OF POLITICS

The idea of enlightenment, that an increase in knowledge automatically permits an increase in social control, has become obsolete. Human intervention in nature and in social life has increasingly produced new, man-made uncertainty. The changes that have accelerated this development in recent decades can be categorized into three groups: globalization, the emergence of a post-traditional social order and the penetration of social reflexivity into more and more spheres of life. These changes have a long-term effect on the context of politics. This article portrays the basic framework for radical, reformulated politics that combines important basic values of philosophical conservatism with those of socialist thinking in a contemporary form.