Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization: Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory Contributor(s): Domingues, José Maurício (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415848717 ISBN-13: 9780415848718 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries - Business & Economics | Development - General |
Dewey: 303.4 |
Series: Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.84 lbs) 284 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book investigates modern global civilization, offering an alternative to post-colonial theories and the multiple modernities approach (as well as the civilizational theory linked to it). It argues that modernity has become a global civilization that is heterogeneous and intertwined with other civilizations, and also aims at a renewal of critical theory that is not US-centric and Eurocentric, focusing instead on China, South Asia (India) and Latin America (Brazil). Dealing with the themes of centre-periphery relations, complexity (including culture and religion), democracy and emancipatory possibilities, this book is based on general theoretical ideas such as collective subjectivity, the interplay of memory and creativity, and the concept of modernizing moves, so as to deal with historical contingency. |