Varieties of multiple modernities : new research design /

"To date, the nascent consequential notion of 'multiple modernities' has been predominately grounded in historical research with the purpose of validating the theory. Yet, the notion of multiple modernities represents a radical transformation in the way modernity and, indeed, the cont...

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Other Authors: Preyer, Gerhard, Sussman, Michael, 1983-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2016.
Series:International comparative social studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction on Shmuel N. Eisenstadt's sociology : the path to multiple modernities / Gerhard Preyer and Michael Sussman
  • Part 1. Global modernities extrapolation of the research program
  • With and beyond Shmuel N. Eisenstadt : transglobality / Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg
  • Multiple modernities and the theory of indeterminacy / Manussos Marangudakis
  • Multiple modernities and globalization/glocalization : a comment on Eisenstadt / Roland Robertson
  • The multiple modernities debates as a prospectus for global scholarship : more opportunities than dead-ends? / Barrie Axford
  • Multiple modernities in modern law and legal systems : Shmuel Eisenstadt's grand design and beyond / Werner Krawietz
  • Part 2. Multiple modernities view to contemporary societies
  • Multipolarity means thinking plural : modernities / Jan Nederveen Pieterse
  • Multiple modernities "East" and "West" and the quest for universal human rights / Luis Roniger
  • Theorizing of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 : the multiple contexts of the Iranian Revolution / Mehdi P. Amineh and Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
  • Thinking multiple modernities from Latin America's perspective : complexity, periphery and diversity / Judit Bokser Liwerant
  • Kant, modernity and the absent public / Mark Jarzombek.