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Author: Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780822327141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this volume of essays examines modernity from transnational and transcultural perspectives, holding that within different cultures, there are different starting points of the transition to modernity that lead to differen
Author: Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1351504274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow may we characterize contemporary society in a world so complex? Can looking at the diverse paths followed by various cultures in the modern world generate useful new social scientific typologies, or must a different set of questions be posed in this era of globalization? What, in short, is the nature of modernity? These are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to Multiple Modernities.Following the theme in an earlier work edited by Shmuel Eisenstadt, Public Spheres and Collective Identities, this book challenges conventional notions of how the world has changed politically, socially, and economically. The authors consider the meaning of modernity in contexts as different as communist Russia, modern India, the Muslim world, Latin America, China and East Asia, and the United States. Miscegenation, transnational migration, technological developments, and changing communications have shifted the ground on which theories of society were once built; political system, diaspora groups, religion, and ""classical"" theories of modernity have to be reconsidered in a new context.Authors and chapters include: S.N. Eisenstadt, ""Multiple Modernities""; Bjrn Wittrock, ""Modernity: One, None, or Many? European Origins and Modernity as a Global Condition""; Johann P. Arnason, ""Communism and Modernity""; Nilfer Gle, ""Snapshots of Islamic Modernities""; Dale F. Eickelman, ""Island and the Languages of Modernity""; Sudipta Kaviraj, ""Modernity and Politics in India""; Stanley J. Tambiah, ""Transnational Movements, Diaspora, and Multiple Modernities""; Tu Weiming, ""Implications of the Jrise of 'Confucian' East Asia""; Jrgen Heideking, ""The Pattern of American Modernity from the Revolution to the Civil War""; and Renato Ortiz, ""From Incomplete Modernity to World Modernity.""Written in clear and non-technical language for both a scholarly and general audience, this volume confronts the problem of just what constitutes the common core of modernit
Author: Miriam Leonard
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-06-08
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0674743938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.
Author: Peter J. Taylor
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0745668747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaylor develops a geohistorical argument which focuses on the periods and places of modernities, offering a grounded analysis of what it is to be modern. He identifies three 'prime modernities' which have defined the development of our modern world: today's consumer modernity preceded by the industrial modernity of the nineteenth century which was itself preceded by mercantile modernity.
Author: K. Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780804744157
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Author: Lisa Rofel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999-03
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0520210794
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Cogent, evocative, and theoretically rigorous. I know of no one else who has so artfully delineated the complex, heterogeneous effects of political mobilization on the formation of collective and individual subjectivities."—Dorinne Kondo, author of Crafting Selves
Author: Mike Featherstone
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1995-06-05
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1446228835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlobal Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation state′ and `national sovereignty′. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.
Author: Peter van der Veer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1136661832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of these religions, but also to religious forms of modernity. Religious perceptions of the self, of community, and of the state are transformed when Western discourses of modernity become dominant in the modern world. This volume seeks to relate Europe and its Others by exploring conversion both in modern Europe and in the colonized world.
Author: P. A. Morton
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780262632713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA look at how the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris created hybrids of French and colonial culture.
Author: Luís Madureira
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780813923765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, this study shows how the ""peripheral"" replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ crucially from their European models, and addresses issues that many post colonial theorists have struggled with.
