Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization: Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory: 1 (Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies) - Hardcover

Domingues, José Maurício

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415806941 ISBN 13: 9780415806947

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

José Maurício Domingues holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is Professor at the Institute for Political and Social Studies of Rio de Janeiro State University (IESP-UERJ).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415806941
• ISBN 13: 9780415806947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284