Multiple Modernities

How may we characterize contemporary society in a world so complex? Can looking at the diverse paths followed by various cultures in the modern world generate useful new social scientific typologies, or must a different set of questions be posed in this era of globalization? What is the nature of modernity? These are some of the questions addressed

Autorentext

Eisenstadt, Shmuel N.

Inhalt
Multiple Modernities, Modernity: One, None, or Many? European Origins and Modernity as a Global Condition, Communism and Modernity, Snapshots of Islamic Modernities, Islam and the Languages of Modernity, Modernity and Politics in India, Transnational Movements, Diaspora, and Multiple Modernities, Implications of the Rise of Confucian East Asia, The Pattern of American Modernity from the Revolution to the Civil War, From Incomplete Modernity to World Modernity, Index