TY - JOUR AU - Gorbunova, Lyudmila PY - 2012/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Thinking In The World of Plurality: Project of Transversal Reason by W. Welsh. JF - Filosofiya osvity. Philosophy of Education JA - Filos. osv. Philos. Educ. VL - 11 IS - 1-2 SE - DO - UR - https://philosopheducation.com/index.php/philed/article/view/380 SP - AB - <p>The modern era’s spirit can be described in terms of pluralism, interweaving and chaos. How&nbsp;can thinking be possible in a situation of permanent processuality and contingency escaping from&nbsp;fixation in disciplinary orders of paradigms and rationalities? Can the new universality of philosophy&nbsp;be possible in the conditions of producing the differences and the formation of heterogeneous systems&nbsp;in all fields and at all levels of social being? The new horizons for building intelligent strategies open&nbsp;in the concepts of transversal thinking.<br>The main ideas of W. Welsch’s project of transversal reason and universal philosophy are examined&nbsp;&nbsp;in the paper. The author analyzes the contradiction between universalist pattern of philosophy&nbsp;and its cultural matrix, which can be dissolved on the basis of the model proposed by Welsch as relevant&nbsp;in terms of transculturality. The congruence of transcultural and transversal perspectives in the&nbsp;context of globalization, forming heterogeneous space of communications, overcoming boundaries&nbsp;and limits is shown. This fact forms the ontological need for transversal reason that is able in the&nbsp;conditions of further differentiation of the rationalities to transit between them, without reducing the&nbsp;differences but claiming them. The methodological importance and the new meaning of reflection&nbsp;in the implementation of transversal crossings are emphasized. The possibilities of the development&nbsp;of transversal reason in the digital networks of the information society are shown.&nbsp;Welsch’s concept of transversal reason forms pragmatics of our actions in all spheres of public&nbsp;life, representing a multidimensional reality of networks, and also offers the new opportunities for&nbsp;the becoming of a transversal philosophy as a truly universal and relevant one in an era of plurality.&nbsp;</p> ER -