Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism (Radical Imagination Series) - Hardcover

Dirlik, Arif

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594513228 ISBN 13: 9781594513220

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

"A compelling essay on the contemporary human condition." William D. Coleman, Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University "An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University In his provocative new book Arif Dirlik argues that the present represents not the beginning of globalization, but its end. We are instead in a new era in the unfolding of capitalism -- "global modernity". The fall of communism in the 1980s generated culturally informed counter-claims to modernity. Globalization has fragmented our understanding of what is "modern". Dirlik's "global modernity" is a concept that enables us to distinguish the present from its Eurocentric past, while recognizing the crucial importance of that past in shaping the present.

About this title

From the Author:

Arif Dirlik is Knight Professor of Social Science and Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Marxism in the Chinese Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield 2005) and Postmodernity’s Histories: The Past as Legacy and Project (Rowman & Littlefield 2000).

About the Author:

Arif Dirlik is Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, which co-sponsored publication of this book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594513228
• ISBN 13: 9781594513220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188