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Raymond L.m. Lee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Reinventing Modernity: Reflexive Modernization vs Liquid Modernity vs Multiple Modernities
European Journal of Social Theory, 2006Co-Authors: Raymond L.m. LeeAbstract:Modernity has not collapsed under the weight of postmodern criticisms. On the contrary, it has rebounded with greater vigour as witnessed by the emergence of new terms such as reflexive modernization, liquid Modernity and multiple modernities. These terms suggest that Modernity can no longer be conceptualized in the singular. Yet the pluralization of Modernity does not necessarily imply that there is a new consensus about the meaning of Modernity. The appearance of these terms can be regarded as specific attempts to transcend postmodern critiques. Comparison of these new terms provides an understanding of their usage in the context of the decline of postmodernism and the direction of contests over the meaning of Modernity.
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Modernity, ANTI-Modernity AND POST-Modernity IN MALAYSIA:
International Sociology, 1992Co-Authors: Raymond L.m. LeeAbstract:The problem of Modernity and post-Modernity centres on the fate of the bourgeois carriers of the Protestant Ethic in an inordinately differentiated and rationalised world. Post-Modernity is a reaction to the advanced alienation of late capitalism, an attempt to restore some meaning to the existential despair over the growing irrationality of Modernity. The emphases on sensualism, pluralism and realism comprise desperate efforts to cling on to the human sources of a runaway creation called Modernity.If post-Modernity comprises efforts in criticising the foundations of modern Western civilisation, how do they influence the development agenda of the Third World nations? Through a study of the modernisation programme in Malaysia, it is argued that Modernity in Malaysia is a recent phenomenon and must be considered in the context of its colonial history. Industrialisation in Malaysia does not follow the same historical trajectory as industrialisation in the Western democracies. Thus, Modernity in the recent hi...
Luo Hui - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Rethinking the Modernity and Post-Modernity of Enlightenment
Journal of Nanjing Normal University, 2006Co-Authors: Luo HuiAbstract:"Modernity" and "Post-Modernity" are two kinds of entirely different philosophical spirit.The reason why the Chinese academic circles pay attention to Modernity and post-Modernity is that our country is in the process of modernization.It relates to what kind of modern nation China intends to build itself into and what kind of Modernity China wants to bring up,i.e.what kind of nation spirit,system and behavior method.The modernism's criticism on post-Modernity is beneficial for us to grasp the grain of modern western thought,and to understand the existence of Modernity in the west,and to meditate the problem of Chinese enlightenment and Modernity.
Ibrahim Kaya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Modernity, openness, interpretation: a perspective on multiple modernities
Social Science Information, 2004Co-Authors: Ibrahim KayaAbstract:This article aims to inspire an analysis of Modernity that would provide a starting point for conceptualizing multiple modernities. First, I argue that conceptualizing Modernity as an open-ended horizon engenders spaces to interpret Modernity in multiple ways. A view of Modernity is thus developed that questions totalizing and Eurocentric theories of Modernity. Then the current state of the plurality and diversity of identities and practices is emphasized as the consequence of the openness of Modernity to interpretation. In this respect, it is insisted that the different features of non-western cultures should be seen as the indication for the existence of multiple modernities. Finally, for a sociology of multiple modernities, four basic themes are outlined that need to be worked on: plurality of civilizations, histories, modernizing agents and the projects of Modernity.
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Modernity and Veiled Women
European Journal of Social Theory, 2000Co-Authors: Ibrahim KayaAbstract:This article aims to explore the relationship between veiled, Islamist, women and Modernity in Turkey where the woman question is indeed exemplary of the tension-ridden relations between Modernity and Islam. By examining the veiled women's rejection of Modernity I argue that it is wrong to read Islamism as an actual questioning of Modernity. Traditional Islam is not the key element in understanding the veiled women's identity; rather, at the core of the issue is the reproduction of identity under conditions of Modernity. First, I look at the Islamic understanding of women; second, I consider the relation of Kemalism to women, so as to understand oppositions between Modernity and Islam on the woman question. Finally, the veiled women's rejection of Modernity is analysed by means of taking its self-contradictions into the centre of the argument.
Wang Yi-chuan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Experience of Modernity and Staging of Literary Modernity
Hebei Academic Journal, 2003Co-Authors: Wang Yi-chuanAbstract:While the studies about Chinese Modernity ignore its base, it is time to return back to the ground of Modernity which is just real experience of human being. Modernity in the last analysis is individual's experience of existence whose accordatura is in the complex of resentment and admiration. This complex contains four types of admiration-experience, affection-experience, recollection-experience and breaking-experience. We can put forward a new staging of literary Modernity from the perspective of Modernity experience, so recognize Modernity one and two.
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Approaching the Modernity Two in Chinese Poetics: Rethinking a Poetics of Chinese Modernity
Journal of Beijing Normal University, 2003Co-Authors: Wang Yi-chuanAbstract:The Modernity of Chinese poetics has its own quality of long-term, and has already entered the Modernity two. With being different from Modernity one, began in 1980s, under the foundation of filtering the old mode of binomial opposition, Modernity two wants to reconstruct the special character of Chinese self and its poetics in the globalizing world.
Bassam Tibi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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islam matters to the west islam and europe islam in europe islamic migration between cultural assimilation political integration and communitarian ghettoisation
2001Co-Authors: Bassam TibiAbstract:When at the present time it comes to addressing Islam, we often encounter references to the notions of Modernity, as well as to post-Modernity.1 In this context the perennial question was asked in the headline of an issue of the Times Literary Supplement: ‘Can Islam cope with Modernity?’ (TLS, 23 April 1999). It is one that matters in many ways to the West in the age of migration. To be specific: in acknowledging the secular character of cultural Modernity2 we need to ask whether Islamic migrants accept a decoupling of Islam from politics. Is it possible to reduce their demand for religious tolerance in respect of their cultural identity within a pluralism that puts all religions on an equal footing? Or will they insist on a political determination of the religion of Islam as the only true one and thus insist on its absolutism? What are the implications? And last, but not least: is secular Modernity, which is intrinsically secular, at peril if an increasing Islamic part of the population does not submit to it?
