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The crisis of global modernity : Asian traditions and a sustainable future /

"In this major new study, Prasenjit Duara expands his influential theoretical framework to present circulatory, transnational histories as an alternative to nationalist history. Duara argues that the present day is defined by the intersection of three global changes: the rise of non-western pow...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duara, Prasenjit
Format: Printed Book
Published: Delhi Cambridge University Press 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Sustainability and the crisis of transcendence; 2. Circulatory and competitive histories; 3. The historical logics of global modernity; 4. Dialogical and radical transcendence; 5. Dialogical transcendence and secular nationalism in the Sinosphere; 6. The traffic between secularism and transcendence; 7. Regions of circulation and networks of sustainability in Asia; 8. Conclusion and epilogue: of reason and hope; Index.