How may we characterize contemporary society in a world so complex?
Can looking at the diverse paths followed by various cultures in
the modern world generate useful new social scientific typologies,
or must a different set of questions be posed in this era of
globalization? What, in short, is the nature of modernity? These
are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to
"Multiple Modernities."
Following the theme in an earlier work edited by Shmuel
Eisenstadt, "Public Spheres and Collective Identities," this book
challenges conventional notions of how the world has changed
politically, socially, and economically. The authors consider the
meaning of modernity in contexts as different as communist Russia,
modern India, the Muslim world, Latin America, China and East Asia,
and the United States. Miscegenation, transnational migration,
technological developments, and changing communications have
shifted the ground on which theories of society were once built;
political system, diaspora groups, religion, and "classical"
theories of modernity have to be reconsidered in a new context.
Authors and chapters include: S.N. Eisenstadt, "Multiple
Modernities"; Bjrn Wittrock, "Modernity: One, None, or Many?
European Origins and Modernity as a Global Condition"; Johann P.
Arnason, "Communism and Modernity"; Nilfer Gle, "Snapshots of
Islamic Modernities"; Dale F. Eickelman, "Island and the Languages
of Modernity"; Sudipta Kaviraj, "Modernity and Politics in India";
Stanley J. Tambiah, "Transnational Movements, Diaspora, and
Multiple Modernities"; Tu Weiming, "Implications of the Jrise of
'Confucian' East Asia"; Jrgen Heideking, "The Pattern of American
Modernity from the Revolution to the Civil War"; and Renato Ortiz,
"From Incomplete Modernity to World Modernity."
Written in clear and non-technical language for both a scholarly
and general audience, this volume confronts the problem of just
what constitutes the common core of modernity.
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt is Rose Issacs Professor Emeritus of
Sociology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author
of "The Political Systems of Empires" and co-editor of "Public
Spheres and Collective Identities," available from Transaction.
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