Titlebook: Rethinking Modernity; Postcolonialism and Gurminder K. Bhambra Book 20071st edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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Myths of European Cultural Integrity — The Renaissanceng contributing both to its self-perception as modern as well as to a retrospective labelling as such. The ‘discovery’ of the New World, in particular, as well as advances in science and medicine, demonstrated — to themselves as much as to later generations — the superiority of their epoch over earl

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Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Productione development of particular forms of theoretical understandings. Most importantly, the equating of modernity with Europe reinforces a fundamental assumption of much intellectual thought today: that particular structures, emerging first in the West, would become universal.

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From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism are central to the concern with the future and, for most writers, as I have argued, the history of the West is seen as a precursor of the future of the non-West. In this chapter, I will address theories of modernization and the recent idea of multiple modernities, which is argued by its proponents

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Myths of European Cultural Integrity — The Renaissanceism, and social theory came to be seen not only as part of a European cultural movement, but as synonymous with it. As the prevailing modes of thought were altered so, in the arts, a distinctive image of the times was evoked, and it is the art and architecture of the Renaissance which has most visib

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Myths of the Modern Nation-State — The French Revolutionrather, was seen as constitutive of the . of a new age; one founded upon the idea of equality and expressed through the establishment of modern political institutions. This heightened the sense of the present as unique and unprecedented and, as a consequence, problematized the way in which the relat