Research Catalog

Title

Multiple modernities.

Publication

Cambridge, MA : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, c2000.

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Additional Authors

• Eisenstadt, S. N. (Shmuel Noah), 1923-2010.
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Description

xii, 260; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Daedalus ; v. 129, no. 1

Uniform Title

• Early modernities.
• Daedalus (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 129, no. 1.

Alternative Title

Multiplemodernities

Subject

• Civilization, Modern > Philosophy
• Social change
• Comparative civilization
• Multiculturalism
• Globalization
• Social evolution
• Religion and civilization
• Politics and culture

Note

• "Winter 2000."
• "S.N. Eisenstadt [is] in many ways the principle architect of our study"--P. vi.
• "'Multiple modernities' ought to be read in conjunction with the Summer 1998 issue of Daedalus, 'Early modernities'"--P. xii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Multiple modernities / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Modernity: one, none, or many? European origins and modernity as a global condition / Bjorn Wittrock -- Communism and modernity / Johann P. Arnason -- Snapshots of Islamic modernities / Nilufer Gole -- Islam and the languages of modernity / Dale F. Eickelman -- Modernity and politics in India / Sudipta Kaviraj -- Transnational movements, diaspora, and multiple modernities / Stanley J. Tambiah -- Implications of the rise of "Confucian" East Asia / Tu Weiming -- The pattern of American modernity from the Revolution to the Civil War / Jurgen Heideking -- From incomplete modernity to world modernity / Renato Ortiz.

ISBN

0877240205

OCLC

43557164

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library