ABSTRACT
This book investigates modern global civilization, offering an alternative to post-colonial theories and the "multiple modernities" approach (as well as the civilizational theory linked to it). It argues that modernity has become a global civilization that is heterogeneous and intertwined with other civilizations, and also aims at a renewal of critical theory that is not US-centric and Eurocentric, focusing instead on China, South Asia (India) and Latin America (Brazil). Dealing with the themes of centre-periphery relations, complexity (including culture and religion), democracy and emancipatory possibilities, this book is based on general theoretical ideas such as collective subjectivity, the interplay of memory and creativity, and the concept of "modernizing moves," so as to deal with historical contingency.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
General Introduction
part |24 pages
Critical Theory and Modern Civilization
chapter |11 pages
Apogee, Limits and Renewal of Critical Theory
chapter |11 pages
Civilization and Modernity
part |62 pages
Polarized Flexible Accumulation in an Unequal World
part |67 pages
Complexity and Re-Embeddings, Solidarity and Abstractions
chapter |8 pages
Part III Introduction
chapter |16 pages
Latin America, the West and Complexity
chapter |6 pages
Part III Conclusion
part |59 pages
Democratization and the Persistence of Domination