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Delimiting Modernities : Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739199497
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Delimiting ModernitiesDDC classification:
  • 909.8
LOC classification:
  • CB357.D45 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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