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

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

by Arif Dirlik (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

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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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Paradigm
Published: 20 Jun 2007
ISBN 10: 1594513236
ISBN 13: 9781594513237

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