New perspectives for the classification

• Autor(a) principal: Barros, Camila Monteiro de
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Padilha, Renata
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Em Questão (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/52330
• topic: Teoria da classificação. Sistema de classificação. Semiótica.; Classification theory. Classification system. Semiotics.

This critical review talks about Jens-Erik Mai’s article The modernity of classification. The article discusses modern practices related to classification, upholding mainly to a post-modern conception of classification. Within this conception, the human experience of diversity is centralized, thus, it is accepted that any fact can have multiple interpretations. In this sense, Mai defends that is necessary to rethink conceptual basis of the classification theory and its practices, so it can be developed some grounding that begins with a pluralist interpretative supposition. The article’s conclusion is based on the possibility of adopting the postmodern classification theory, indicating that one must make plenty more than just providing methods and recipes about how to develop schemes and systems, as well as also critically involving the theoretical base and suppositions that constitutes the classification practice.