Abstract
The question of what it means to use the concepts of modernity and the modern sounds like an arcane theoretical concern. Were not those issues sorted out at the end of the twentieth century in the Great Debate between the moderns and postmoderns? Did not the postmoderns win that struggle, only to disintegrate a decade later in their infinite recursions into relativism? Are not we now living in a time when we are all a bit modern and a bit postmodern, variously immersed in digital and personal networks of swirling meaning?
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Making Modernity: From the Mashriq to the Maghreb |
Editors | Stephen Pascoe, Virginie Rey, Paul James |
Place of Publication | North Carlton, Vic. |
Publisher | Arena Publications |
Pages | 31-54 |
Number of pages | 24 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780980415841 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- civilization, modern
- democracy
- Iranians