Modernity and exclusion

Modernity and exclusion

by Kahn, Joel S.

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This penetrating book re-examines t̀he project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative èthnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contexts. It examines cases of p̀opular modernism' in the United States, Britain and colonial Malaysia, drawing out the specific cultural and religious assumptions underlying popular modernism and concludes that modernism is im…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Modernity and exclusion / Joel S. Kahn.

Summary

This penetrating book re-examines t̀he project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative èthnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contexts. It examines cases of p̀opular modernism' in the United States, Britain and colonial Malaysia, drawing out the specific cultural and religious assumptions underlying popular modernism and concludes that modernism is implicated in a diversity of forms of cultural and racial exclusion.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2001.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):SAGE
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2001.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 163 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781849202510, 1849202516, 9781446279038, 1446279030, 1446233022, 9781446233023, 1282020579, 9781282020573, 9786612020575, 6612020571
  • oclc:ocn658202012
  • LC Classification:HM1136
  • Dewey Decimal:305.5/68

Table of Contents

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 MODERNITY AND ITS OTHERS: UNIVERSAL IDEALS AND PARTICULAR OUTCOMES; 2 NATURALISING DIFFERENCE: CIVILISATION AND THE PRIMITIVE IN THE BRITISH IMAGINATION; 3 AMERICAN MODERN: ALIENS, DESPOTS AND THE REPUBLIC; 4 CIVILISATIONAL VIRTUES IN THE MALAY KAMPONG; 5 ENCOUNTERING THE OTHER: MODERNISM AND RACISM; REFERENCES; INDEX.

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Subjects

Ausschluss Gesellschaft Marginalität Marginality, Social Moderne Moderniteit SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies Sociologie -- Philosophie Sociology-philosophy Uitsluiting

Writers

Kahn, Joel S.

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