Joel S Kahn

Modernity and Exclusion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This penetrating book re-examines `the project of modernity'. It seeks to oppose the abstract, idealized vision of modernity with an alternative `ethnographic' understanding. The book defends an approach to modernity that situates it as embedded in particular and historical contexts. It examines cases of `popular modernism' in the United States, Britain and colonial Malaysia, drawing out the specific cultural and religious assumptions underlying popular modernism and concludes that modernism is implicated in a diversity of forms of cultural and racial exclusion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780761966579
• ISBN-10: 0761966579
• Artikelnr.: 21925389

Autorenporträt

Joel Kahn is Professor, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University of Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

Modernity and Its Others
Universal Ideals and Particular Outcomes
Naturalizing Difference
Civilization and the Primitive in the British Imagination
American Modern
Aliens, Despots and the Republic
Civilizational Virtues in the Malay >Encountering the Other
Modernism and Racism