Delimiting Modernities - Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses (Hardcover)

This collection seeks to contribute to the many long-standing discussions on modernity, but also and more specifically to the more recent debates over trends to pluralize modernity. These debates are current in many different academic disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, literature and postcolonial studies. Hitherto, most engagements with modernity in the plural have remained conspicuously confined to one or other intra-disciplinary notion of modernities, such as that of Shmuel Eisenstadt's "multiple modernities" which has triggered a host of conference papers and publications largely within sociology: all the while, it seems that the literatures, for instance, of multiple modernities and alternative modernities are each distinguished by the fact that one ignores the other. It is the principal aim of this edited volume to subject these disciplinary discussions to a more encompassing view, assembling contributions from different scholars who not only work in different disciplines and regional settings, but who also engage with their research topics in a variety of approaches and at different levels of analysis. The volume thus transcends the sometimes narrow boundaries of the debates over modernities within the established academic disciplines and seeks to turn the unavoidable friction brought about by this interdisciplinary setting into most original and insightful scholarship.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2015
Editors:	Sven Trakulhun • Ralph Weber
Contributors:	Pheng Cheah • Arif Dirlik • Wolfgang Knoebl • Gudrun Kramer • Tamara Loos • Anthony Reid • Andrea Riemenschnitter • Volker H Schmidt
Dimensions:	237 x 158 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-9948-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7391-9948-X
Barcode:	9780739199480

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