CONFERENCEProf. Dr. Raivis Bičevskis raivis.bicevskis@lu.lv
Supervisor is tenured professor for social philosophy, Member of Latvian Academy of Science, Head of interdisciplinary Centre for German Studies, Author of more than 150 scientific publications
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Philosophy 20th century (phenomenology, hermeneutics, critique of culture/civilisation, critique of technology, modernity as an epoch) Key words: Philosophy, Social sciences, Modernity Since the first half of the 20th century, the time perspective of cultural criticism, technical criticism, and social criticism approaches and concepts has changed significantly in the modern era (18th -20th centuries), although the arsenal of methods and concepts created in the intense philosophical and sociological debates of that time still constitutes an impressive theoretical deposit, the transformation of which has been engaged in by a number of philosophers, sociologists, historians, and representatives of other humanities and social sciences at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. It is important to understand the new paradigms, concepts, and methods of explaining modernity - their advantages, trends, and perspectives.