Labyrinth of Modernity

Horizons, Pathways and Mutations

AvJohann P. Arnason

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Offering a vital reflection on the unity and diversity of the modern world, this important new book connects with the current debate on multiple modernities and argues that this notion can only be properly understood in a civilizational context. Johann Arnason presupposes the idea of modernity as a new civilization with its specific social imaginary, centred on strong visions of human autonomy but open to differentiation on institutional and ideological levels, as well as in changing historical contexts. The book begins by connecting this perspective to a distinctive framework of social theory, centred on the differentiation of economic, political and cultural spheres. Arnason goes on to deal with Communism as the most important alternative version of modernity, and with East Asian developments as a particularly complex and instructive case of interacting modernities. The book concludes with reflections on globalization theory and ways of reformulating it in light of the civilizational approach.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-06-09
Mått:161 x 232 x 24 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social Imaginaries
Antal sidor:230
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781786608666

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Johann P. Arnason is professor emeritus of sociology at La Trobe University, and an editor-at-large of the journal Social Imaginaries. His many publications include Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions (2003), Axial Civilizations and World History (ed. with S.N. Eisenstadt and B. Wittrock, 2005), The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (ed. with K. Raaflaub, 2011), The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-Cultural Transformation and its Interpretations (ed. with K. Raaflaub and P. Wagner, 2013), Social Transformations and Revolutions (ed. with M. Hrubec, 2016); and Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis (ed. with Chris Hann, 2018).

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Johann Arnason is among the leading social theorists of our era. But in The Labyrinth of Modernity he argues that our era is not a single object to be theorized. Rather, it is a ‘problematic’, a cluster of connected but not unitary forms and themes, subject to change as tensions and possibilities are worked out. As always his thinking is stimulating and significant.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction / 2. Modernity as a new civilization: Imaginary meanings and institutional contexts / 3. Origins and transformations: The question of successive modernities / 4. The Communist alternative and its exit paths / 5. East Asian variations / 6. Global constellations: The one and the multiple / Bibliography / Index