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The conception of modernity as a radical rupture from the past runs
parallel to the conception of Europe as the primary locus of global
history. The essays in this volume contest the temporal and spatial
divisions-between past and present, modernity and tradition, and
Europe's progress and Asia's stasis-which the conventional
narrative of modernity creates. Drawing on early modern Chinese and
Indian history and culture instead, the authors of the book explore
the provenance of modernity beyond the west to see it in a
transcultural and pluralistic light. The central argument of this
volume is that modernity does not have a singular core or essence-a
causal centre. Its key features need to be disaggregated and new
configurations and combinations imagined. By studying the Bhakti
movement, Confucian democracy, and the maritime and agrarian
economies of China and India, this book enlarges the terms of
debate and revisits devalued terms and concepts like tradition,
religion, authority, and rural as resources for modernity. This
book will be of great interest to researchers and academicians
working in the areas of history, Sociology, Cultural Studies,
literature, geopolitics, South Asian and East Asian Studies.
The conception of modernity as a radical rupture from the past runs
parallel to the conception of Europe as the primary locus of global
history. The essays in this volume contest the temporal and spatial
divisions-between past and present, modernity and tradition, and
Europe's progress and Asia's stasis-which the conventional
narrative of modernity creates. Drawing on early modern Chinese and
Indian history and culture instead, the authors of the book explore
the provenance of modernity beyond the west to see it in a
transcultural and pluralistic light. The central argument of this
volume is that modernity does not have a singular core or essence-a
causal centre. Its key features need to be disaggregated and new
configurations and combinations imagined. By studying the Bhakti
movement, Confucian democracy, and the maritime and agrarian
economies of China and India, this book enlarges the terms of
debate and revisits devalued terms and concepts like tradition,
religion, authority, and rural as resources for modernity. This
book will be of great interest to researchers and academicians
working in the areas of history, Sociology, Cultural Studies,
literature, geopolitics, South Asian and East Asian Studies.
At the core of postmodern thought, especially in literary theory,
is the belief that such ideals as truth, reason, and objectivity
are social constructs that have no universal or trans-historical
validity. In exploring this constructivist view, Satya P. Mohanty
examines its underlying epistemological claims and their social and
political implications. His book points the way toward a critical
alternative to the epistemological and cultural relativisms.Mohanty
grounds his critique in readings of some of the major figures of
postmodernism, including Paul de Man, Louis Althusser, Fredric
Jameson, and Jacques Derrida and analyzes the views of Mikhail
Bakhtin, C. S. Peirce, Hilary Putnam, and Richard Rorty,
particularly their notions of language and referentiality. Mohanty
defends a post-positivist realist conception of objectivity as a
legitimate ideal of all inquiry. He outlines a realist theory of
social identity and multicultural politics which sees radical moral
universalism and cultural diversity as complementary not competing
ideals."
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