Delimiting Modernities : Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses.
Trakulhun, Sven.
Delimiting Modernities : Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (297 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Modernities: Editors' Introduction -- I: Globalization and the Rethinking of Modernity -- 1 Of Other Worlds to Come -- 2 What Is 'Modernities' a Plural Of?-A Rhetorical Analysis of Some Recent Uses -- 3 Varieties of Modernity? Conceptual Prerequisites and Empirical Observations -- 4 The Origins of the Social Sciences and the Problem of Conceptualizing 'Modernity'/'Modernities' -- II: Sites of Revision, Ways of Revisioning -- 5 Waiting for the Simorgh: Comparisons, Connections, and the 'Early Modern' -- 6 Early Modernity as Cosmopolis: Some Suggestions from Southeast Asia -- 7 Revisioning Modernity: Modernity in Eurasian Perspectives -- 8 New Historicism and Chinese Modernity: Multiple Mythologies Revisited -- 9 Making Modern Muslims: Islamic Reform, Hasan al-Banna, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood -- 10 Dilemmas of Development: Dr. Krisana Kraisintu's Praxis in Asia and Africa -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.
This book transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.
9780739199497
Civilization, Modern.
Politics and culture.
Electronic books.
CB357.D45 2015
909.8
Delimiting Modernities : Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (297 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Modernities: Editors' Introduction -- I: Globalization and the Rethinking of Modernity -- 1 Of Other Worlds to Come -- 2 What Is 'Modernities' a Plural Of?-A Rhetorical Analysis of Some Recent Uses -- 3 Varieties of Modernity? Conceptual Prerequisites and Empirical Observations -- 4 The Origins of the Social Sciences and the Problem of Conceptualizing 'Modernity'/'Modernities' -- II: Sites of Revision, Ways of Revisioning -- 5 Waiting for the Simorgh: Comparisons, Connections, and the 'Early Modern' -- 6 Early Modernity as Cosmopolis: Some Suggestions from Southeast Asia -- 7 Revisioning Modernity: Modernity in Eurasian Perspectives -- 8 New Historicism and Chinese Modernity: Multiple Mythologies Revisited -- 9 Making Modern Muslims: Islamic Reform, Hasan al-Banna, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood -- 10 Dilemmas of Development: Dr. Krisana Kraisintu's Praxis in Asia and Africa -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.
This book transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.
9780739199497
Civilization, Modern.
Politics and culture.
Electronic books.
CB357.D45 2015
909.8