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GLOBAL MODERNITY, DEVELOPMENT, AND CONTEMPORARY CIVILIZATION IBD

ROUTLEDGE
09 / 2011
9780415806947
Inglês

Sinopse

This book investigates modern global civilization, offering an alternative to post-colonial theories and the 'multiple modernities' approach (as well as the civilizational theory linked to it). It argues that modernity has become a global civilization that is heterogeneous and intertwined with other civilizations, and also aims at a renewal of critical theory that is not US-centric and Eurocentric, focusing instead onáChina, South Asia (India)áand Latin America (Brazil). Dealing with the themes of centre-periphery relations, complexity (including culture and religion), democracy and emancipatory possibilities,áthis bookáis based on general theoretical ideas such as collective subjectivity, the interplay of memory and creativity, and the concept of 'modernizing moves,' so as to deal with historical contingency.