By Sven Trakulhun,Ralph Weber,Pheng Cheah,Arif Dirlik,Wolfgang Knöbl,Gudrun Krämer,Tamara Loos,Anthony Reid,Andrea Riemenschnitter,Volker H. Schmidt,Sanjay Subrahmanyam

ISBN-10: 073919948X

ISBN-13: 9780739199480

This assortment seeks to give a contribution to the numerous long-standing discussions on modernity, but additionally and extra in particular to the newer debates over developments to pluralize modernity. those debates are present in lots of assorted educational disciplines similar to sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial experiences. Hitherto, such a lot engagements with modernity within the plural have remained conspicuously constrained to 1 or different intra-disciplinary proposal of modernities, equivalent to that of Shmuel Eisenstadt’s “multiple modernities” which has caused a number of convention papers and guides mostly inside sociology: the entire whereas, it appears the literatures, for example, of a number of modernities and replacement modernities are every one unique via the truth that one ignores the opposite. it's the crucial target of this edited quantity to topic those disciplinary discussions to a extra encompassing view, assembling contributions from diversified students who not just paintings in numerous disciplines and nearby settings, yet who additionally interact with their examine themes in quite a few methods and at varied degrees of study. the quantity therefore transcends the occasionally slim limitations of the debates over modernities in the demonstrated educational disciplines and seeks to show the unavoidable friction led to by way of this interdisciplinary atmosphere into most unusual and insightful scholarship.

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