Global modernity from coloniality to pandemic : a cross-disciplinary perspective /

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This book poses questions about viewing modernity today from the vantage point of traditionally disparate disciplines engaging scholars from sociology to science, philosophy to robotics, medicine to visual culture, mathematics to cultural theory, etc., including a contribution by Alain Touraine. Fro...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Akil, Hatem N. (Editor , Contribuidor), Maddanu, Simone (Editor , Contribuidor), Yassine, Rachid Id (Contribuidor), Touraine, Alain (Contribuidor), Sustam, Engin (Contribuidor), Silaghi, Marius C. (Contribuidor), Nomiya, Daishiro (Contribuidor), Mongili, Alessandro (Contribuidor), Mesa, Beatriz (Contribuidor), Mauer, Barry (Contribuidor), Jacobson, David (Contribuidor), Fatima, Shumaila (Contribuidor), Farro, Antimo Luigi (Contribuidor), Esu, Aide (Contribuidor), Dobbins, Elizabeth G. (Contribuidor), Darwish, Housamedden (Contribuidor), Cooper, Richard (Contribuidor), Cadeddu, Lucio (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Civilization, Modern.
Interdisciplinary studies.
Society and culture: general.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
PHILOSOPHY / General
Civilization, Modern
Political science and theory.
Social and political philosophy.
Global Modernity, Modernisation, Pandemic, Direct Democracy, Ecology and Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Connecting Modernities
  • Part I Modernity as We Know It
  • 2. Technology and the Texture of Modernity
  • 3. Math and Modernity: Critical Reflections
  • 4. Stranded Modernity
  • 5. The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity
  • 6. The Missing Body
  • Part II Modernity under Fire
  • 7. Criticism of "Colonial Modernity" through Kurdish Decolonial Approaches
  • 8. Conflicting Modernities: Militarization and Islands
  • 9. Project Modernity: From Anticolonialism to Decolonization
  • Part III In the Shadow of the Pandemic
  • 10. Modernity and Decision-Making for Global Challenges
  • 11. Public Health Confronts Modernity in the Shadow of the Pandemic
  • 12. Human Identity and COVID-19
  • Part IV Imagining New Global Frameworks
  • 13. Environmentalism: A Challenge to Modernity
  • 14. The Cognitive Immune System
  • 15. Representative Democracy as Kitsch, and Artificial Intelligence's Promise of Emancipation
  • 16. Subjectivation, Modernity, and Hypermodernity
  • 17. Toward a New Global?
  • Index

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