Alternative Modernities (Volume 11) (a Public Culture book)
ISBN-13:
9780822327035
ISBN-10:
0822327031
Edition:
2nd
Author:
Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
376 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780822327035
ISBN-10:
0822327031
Edition:
2nd
Author:
Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Publication date:
2001
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
376 pages
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Alternative Modernities (Volume 11) (a Public Culture book) (ISBN-13: 9780822327035 and ISBN-10: 0822327031), written by authors
Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2001.
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To think in terms of “alternative modernities” is to admit that modernity is inescapable and to desist from speculations about modernity’s end. Modernity today is global and multiple and no longer has a Western “governing center” to accompany it. The essays in this collection, therefore, approach the dilemmas of modernity from transnational and transcultural perspectives.The idea of “alternative modernities” holds that modernity always unfolds within specific cultures or civilizations and that different starting points of the transition to modernity lead to different outcomes. Without abandoning the Western discourse on the subject, the contributors to this volume write from the standpoint that modernity is in truth a richly mulitiplicitous concept. Believing that the language and lessons of Western modernity must be submitted to comparative study of its global receptions, they focus on such sites as China, Russia, India, Trinidad, and Mexico. Other essays treat more theoretical aspects of modernity, such as its self-understanding and the potential reconcilability of cosmopolitanism and diversity.Contributors. Homi Bhabha, William Cunningham Bissell, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Michael Hanchard, Beatriz Jaguaribe, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Claudio Lomnitz, Thomas McCarthy, Tejaswini Niranjana, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Shahzia Sikander, Charles Taylor, Andrew Wachtel
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