{"product_id":"delimiting-modernities-9780739199480","title":"Delimiting Modernities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the current global conjuncture, claims on modernity are proliferating, and we witness increasingly contested debates about early and multiple modernities, and about visions of development outside the frame of Euro-American epistemologies. In this anthology, a group of distinguished scholars offers a wealth of insights and critical perspectives, aiming both at assessing the meaning of these interventions, and to reconfigure the notion of \"modernity\" for our times. -- Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin\u003cbr\u003eIn this interdisciplinary and international collection of essays, delimiting modernities becomes a twofold project: on the one hand, consolidating as well as complicating the use of a pluralized notion of modernity; on the other hand, further provincializing the Eurocentric conceptual history of modernity in ways that reflect ongoing global assymmetries of power. The result is a far-reaching exploration of a timely subject by some of the best scholars in the field -- Manuela Boatca, Freie Universität Berlin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Globalization and the Rethinking of Modernity Chapter 1: ‘Of Other Worlds to Come,' Pheng Cheah Chapter 2: What is ‘Modernities’ a Plural of? – A Rhetorical Analysis of Some Recent Uses, Ralph Weber Chapter 3: Varieties of Modernity? Conceptual Prerequisites and Empirical Observations, Volker H. Schmidt Chapter 4: The Origins of the Social Sciences and the Problem of Conceptualizing ‘Modernity’\/’Modernities,’ Wolfgang Knöbl  Part II. Sites of Revision, Ways of Revisioning Chapter 5: Waiting for the Simorgh: Comparisons, Connections, and the ‘Early Modern,’ Sanjay Subrahmanyam Chapter 6: Early Modernity as Cosmopolis: Some Suggestions from Southeast Asia, Anthony Reid Chapter 7: Revisioning Modernity: Modernity in Eurasian Perspectives, Arif Dirlik Chapter 8: New Historicism and Chinese Modernity: Multiple Mythologies Revisited, Andrea Riemenschnitter Chapter 9: Making Modern Muslims: Islamic Reform, Hasan al-Banna, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Gudrun Krämer Chapter 10: Dilemmas of Development: Dr. Krisana Kraisintu’s Praxis in Asia and Africa, Tamara Loos","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037559816535,"sku":"9780739199480","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739199480.jpg?v=1750936257","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/delimiting-modernities-9780739199480","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}