Think strategically to help put our locked-down world of today into perspective: COVID-19, global climate change, and other crises, prevent clarity and increase anxiety. Against these we apply psychology and history to gain insight into our current moment.
Join Chris, Dawson and Karambir, as they converse on these issues.
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Think strategically to help put our locked-down world of today into perspective: COVID-19, global climate change, and other crises, prevent clarity and increase anxiety. Against these we apply psychology and history to gain insight into our current moment.
Join Chris, Dawson and Karambir, as they converse on these issues.
7. After Modernity, what? Postmodernity, Ultramodernity, Multiple Modernities
AfterThought
26 minutes 43 seconds
5 years ago
7. After Modernity, what? Postmodernity, Ultramodernity, Multiple Modernities
We discuss different ways to understand the “end” of the modern Western worldview: does it end? Does it entrench and solidify itself? Is it overcome, or an alternative present itself? How does it transform? In a sense, all of the above happens, and this incoherent plurality and its globalization becomes a key feature of our present moment and our contemporary understanding. Keeping power as a focus, we discuss ultramodernity, hypermodernity, postmodernity, and Shmuel Eisenstadt’s notion of “multiple modernities”.
Eisenstadt has written alot! Here are a couple of references specifically about multiple modernities:
Eisenstadt, Shmuel. (2000). Multiple modernities. Daedalus, 129(1), 1–29.
Eisenstadt, Shmuel. (2006). The great revolutions and the civilizations of modernity. Leiden: Brill.
AfterThought
Think strategically to help put our locked-down world of today into perspective: COVID-19, global climate change, and other crises, prevent clarity and increase anxiety. Against these we apply psychology and history to gain insight into our current moment.
Join Chris, Dawson and Karambir, as they converse on these issues.