ISBN:
9781786608680
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Sociology-Philosophy
Abstract:
This important new book by a major voice in the Social Imaginaries movement offers the most systematic attempt to establish conceptual and historical links between the idea of modernity as a new civilization and the notion of multiple modernities. Arnason demonstrates a theory of globalization that is still compatible with the emphasis on unity and diversity of modernity as a civilization.
Abstract:
The Labyrinth of Modernity -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Modernity: One, Many, and Divided -- 3 Life Orders and Articulations -- Perspectives on Capitalism -- Domains of the Political -- Meaning and Modernity -- 4 Contexts and Phases of Modernity -- Periodizing Modernity -- Lost, Found, and Faraway Modernities -- 5 The Road to St. Petersburg -- Aspects of the Short Twentieth Century -- Communism in Context -- The Leninist Syndrome and Its Sources -- 6 The Soviet Model -- The Formation of an Alternative Modernity -- Totalitarianism in Context -- Change and Crisis -- 7 East Asian Complications -- The Civilizational Background -- Politics and Religion -- Transformations of the Soviet Model -- After Maoism -- The Question of Chinese Democracy -- 8 Concluding Reflections: Global Modernities in World Context -- Civilizational Perspectives -- Historical Landmarks and Conceptual Signposts -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
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