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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-101594513228

ISBN-139781594513220

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Number of Pages188 Pages

Publication NameGlobal Modernity : Modernity in the Age of Global Capitalism

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGlobalization, Sociology / General, Imperialism, International Relations / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Publication Year2006

TypeTextbook

AuthorArif Dirlik

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2006-014181

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Dirlik pushes our understanding of the contemporary world forward by arguing that globalization is not something happening that has yet to fulfill its promise, but something that has happened producing global modernity, a world of new unities and fractures. This world is one where human agency acquires more importance and cracks in the faade of modernity offer avenues of hope to those willing to act. A compelling essay on the contemporary human condition." --William D. Coleman, Distinguished University Professor, Canada Research Chair on Global Governance and Public Policy, 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, Dirlik pushes our understanding of the contemporary world forward by arguing that globalization is not something happening that has yet to fulfill its promise, but something that has happened producing global modernity, a world of new unities and fractures. This world is one where human agency acquires more importance and cracks in the façade of modernity offer avenues of hope to those willing to act. A compelling essay on the contemporary human condition., An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism.

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal337

Table Of Content1. Introduction: Global Modernity 2. Thinking Globalization Historically 3. Conceptual Field(s) of Globality 4. Legacies: The Global and the Colonial 5. Alternatives? The PRC and the Global South 6. Conclusion: Is There a Future after Globalization?

SynopsisIn his provocative new book Arif Dirlik argues that the present represents not the beginning but the end of globalization, which has produced a new era in the unfolding of capitalism'global modernity.'? The globalization of capitalism following the fall of socialist competitors in the 1980s generated culturally informed counter-claims to modernity. Modernity, globalized, has resulted in the fragmentation of the very idea of modern. Dirlik?'s ?global modernity? is intended as a conceptual marker to distinguish the present from its Eurocentric past, while recognizing the crucial importance of that past in shaping the present.The study makes its case through (a)historicizing globalization as concept and phenomenon, (b)analyzing differences between globalization and earlier discourses of development-from modernization to various challenges to it in World-System Analysis, Dependency Theory, etc.-it seeks to demonstrate why globalization as discourse derives plausibility from a new situation in the unfolding of global capitalism. It also suggests a strong relationship between an emergent Global Modernity, and discourses of postmodernity and postcoloniality that acquired currency during the same years, and, (c)arguing that the new situation of Global Modernity does not break with its colonial past, but reconfigures it, as capital in its transnationalization creates new class formations that cut across divides of earlier Three Worlds ideas, or clear-cut distinctions between colonizers and colonized., "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., 'An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism.' Immanuel Wallerstein, "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.

LC Classification NumberJZ1318.D57 2006