Indigenous peoples have been cast as representing modernity?s fading premodern0Other. This volume starts from the opposite assumption, namely that0contemporary indigenous peoples are specifically modern societies, profoundly0shaped by their specific ways of dealing with, making …
"Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining …
Al-Azmeh traces how political Islam breaks with core elements of the Muslim tradition and, at the same time, roots many of its concepts in European reactionary and romantic thought. Surveying both its social origins end its intellectual genealogy, he rethinks the relationship be…
Introduction : historical writing and the limits of Westernization -- Early East Asian pioneers of modernity, 1860-1910 -- The development of modernity in American thought, 1890s-1910s -- John Dewey's trip to China, Hu Shih, Lu Xun, and Chinese modernity, 1919-1920 -- American a…
This collection of studies investigates the multifaceted notion of African modernities. The authors examine ideas and practices of modernity, as well as the implication of its meaning in academic debate.