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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806129703321

Autore

Kahn Joel S

Titolo

Modernity and exclusion [[electronic resource] /] / Joel S. Kahn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 2001

ISBN

1-4462-7903-0

1-4462-3302-2

1-282-02057-9

9786612020575

1-84920-251-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 163 p.)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

301.01

Soggetti

Sociology - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society, Nottingham Trent University"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 MODERNITY AND ITS OTHERS: UNIVERSAL IDEALS AND PARTICULAR OUTCOMES; 2 NATURALISING DIFFERENCE: CIVILISATION AND THE PRIMITIVE IN THE BRITISH IMAGINATION; 3 AMERICAN MODERN: ALIENS, DESPOTS AND THE REPUBLIC; 4 CIVILISATIONAL VIRTUES IN THE MALAY KAMPONG; 5 ENCOUNTERING THE OTHER: MODERNISM AND RACISM; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This text re-examines the project of modernity by opposing the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative ethnographic understanding. The book draws out the specific cultural and religious assumptions underlying popular modernism.