Postmodern antinomies on nature

Abstract

This article analyzes the intrinsic link between the modern view of science and its underlying idea of nature. After discussing the characteristics of the postmodern positions and summarizing the various conceptions of nature prevalent at different times throughout history, we problematize indicators of incongruity in postmodern images of nature. Our objective, through analysis and conceptual history, is to delineate the points of tensions concerning different notions of nature within postmodern theories. We then suggest that the equivocality of the concept of nature produces multiple paradoxes and antinomies in contemporary thought, many of which emerged within the scope of modernity itself, becoming even more explicit and intense in the current technical and scientific climate.