Varieties of multiple modernities
Subtitle: new research design
By: edited by Gerhard Preyer, Michael Sussman
Series: International comparative social studies -- volume 33
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9789004306516; 9789004306714
Subjects: Sociology; Communication; Philosophy; Comparative civilization; Research; Modern Civilization; Social change; Political and social views
Description: "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 contemporary world is viewed. As such, the central aim of this volume is to explore the implications and hidden understanding of the multiple modernities research project beyond historical analysis in order to investigate its wide ranging omnipresent implications as they exist in communication and in the social order of societal membership in contemporary societies"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction on Shmuel N. Eisenstadt's sociology : the path to multiple modernities / Gerhard Preyer and Michael Sussman; title: Part 1. Global modernities extrapolation of the research program; title: With and beyond Shmuel N. Eisenstadt : transglobality / Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg; title: Multiple modernities and the theory of indeterminacy / Manussos Marangudakis; title: Multiple modernities and globalization/glocalization : a comment on Eisenstadt / Roland Robertson; title: The multiple modernities debates as a prospectus for global scholarship : more opportunities than dead-ends? / Barrie Axford; title: Multiple modernities in modern law and legal systems : Shmuel Eisenstadt's grand design and beyond / Werner Krawietz; title: Part 2. Multiple modernities view to contemporary societies; title: Multipolarity means thinking plural : modernities / Jan Nederveen Pieterse; title: Multiple modernities "East" and "West" and the quest for universal human rights / Luis Roniger; title: Theorizing of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979 : the multiple contexts of the Iranian Revolution / Mehdi P. Amineh and Shmuel N. Eisenstadt; title: Thinking multiple modernities from Latin America's perspective : complexity, periphery and diversity / Judit Bokser Liwerant; title: Kant, modernity and the absent public / Mark Jarzombek.