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Aims to bring together a renewed perspective of critical theory and the theories of social movements in order to think about emancipation globally. Brings together contributions from all over the world in order to achieve a multifaceted standpoint.
Demystifying Modernity: In Defence of a Singular and Normative Ideal
Demystifying Modernity: In Defence of a Singular and Normative Ideal
The Context
If Social Sciences had emerged with and in the course of transition to modernity – a series of massive structural, cultural and discursive changes – the question of modernity itself – its nature, characteristics and implications – has been the main pre-occupation of the social scientists. This has not changed even after the rise of many and varied forms of primordialism everywhere recently and the emergence of post-modernism in Europe. In fact, these two somewhat related tendencies have only intensified and broadened the investigations on modernity. Grasping the nature of modernity not only appears to be interesting and important in itself, but it ...
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