The Converging Horizons: Aspects Of A New Paradigm

Abstract

Our research work aims to uncover the epistemological depth of the interdisciplinarity paradigm (the interdisciplinarity paradigm) that is currently shaping the path of scientific knowledge in our globalized world. Since interdisciplinarity, as a concept, derives its essence from relational logic, we deemed it necessary to embark on our epistemological approach to this new interdisciplinarity paradigm by examining one of its key priorities: the concept of relationship.

In this context, we start from an initial assumption that the primary methodological foundation of the relational dimension, as it has been cognitively circulated, was established from within the structural/linguistic domain. This is based on the understanding that the fundamental proposition in the structuralist framework is not the proposition of existence but the proposition of relationship. It is through this proposition and alongside it that a comprehensive grammar was established to study human phenomena.

By adopting the same dualistic logic but dismantling its mechanisms and breaking down all the ideological layers surrounding it, a transition was made from the closed structuralist framework to adopting a divergent/liberating pattern of post-structuralist thought. This new pattern disavows all the determinations imposed by monistic/simplistic logic, allowing for engagement with various intellectual discourses and breaking the isolation between human sciences and other realms of the knowledge institution. This is accomplished through a relational approach that is difficult to disentangle and engage with outside its dialogic logic.