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The Labyrinth of Modernity - Horizons, Pathways and Mutations (Hardcover)
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The Labyrinth of Modernity - Horizons, Pathways and Mutations (Hardcover)
Series: Social Imaginaries
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Offering a vital reflection on the unity and diversity of the
modern world, this important new book connects with the current
debate on multiple modernities and argues that this notion can only
be properly understood in a civilizational context. Johann Arnason
presupposes the idea of modernity as a new civilization with its
specific social imaginary, centred on strong visions of human
autonomy but open to differentiation on institutional and
ideological levels, as well as in changing historical contexts. The
book begins by connecting this perspective to a distinctive
framework of social theory, centred on the differentiation of
economic, political and cultural spheres. Arnason goes on to deal
with Communism as the most important alternative version of
modernity, and with East Asian developments as a particularly
complex and instructive case of interacting modernities. The book
concludes with reflections on globalization theory and ways of
reformulating it in light of the civilizational approach.
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