Daedalus articles from January 2000

Daedalus archives from January 2000

Preface to the Issue "Multiple Modernities".
January 1, 2000... THE TERM "MULTIPLE MODERNITIES" is not one in common usage today. There is no way of knowing whether it will ever achieve the renown or instant recognition that certain other more hyperbolic phrases like "the end of history" and "the clash of...

Multiple Modernities.
January 1, 2000... I THE NOTION OF "multiple modernities" denotes a certain view of the contemporary world--indeed of the history and characteristics of the modern era--that goes against the views long prevalent in scholarly and general discourse. It goes...

Modernity: One, None, or Many? European Origins and Modernity as a Global Condition.
January 1, 2000... MODERNITY: TEMPORAL OR SUBSTANTIVE? WHEN WE SPEAK OF MODERNITY and of modern societies, we seem to mean one of two things. [1] First, we may speak as if we were giving an encompassing name to a whole epoch in world history, the modern age,...

Communism and Modernity.
January 1, 2000... THE COMMUNIST EPISODE, central to the historical experience of the twentieth century but brought to an abrupt end by unforeseen developments, is now widely dismissed as a failed revolt against modernity. [1] For the victors of the Cold War and...

Snapshots of Islamic Modernities.
January 1, 2000... THE PROJECT OF MULTIPLE MODERNITIES presents a challenge to the monocivilizational narratives of "Western modernity." It attempts to reintroduce some of the pluralistic features of Western modernity that were repressed, marginalized, or simply...

Islam and the Languages of Modernity.
January 1, 2000... THE SECULAR BIAS of modernization theory has had a significant role in deflecting attention away from the role of religious practices and values in contemporary societies, particularly in the Muslim majority world. In the early 1960s, a leading...

Modernity and Politics in India.
January 1, 2000... THIS ESSAY is in two parts. The first part suggests that conventional theoretical models about the structure of modernity and its historical extension across the world are faulty; to understand the historical unfolding of modernity, especially...

Transnational Movements, Diaspora, and Multiple Modernities.
January 1, 2000... TRANSNATIONAL MOVEMENTS OF PEOPLE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS A DEVELOPMENT THAT BECKONS increasing attention in our era of globalization concerns the enormous transnational movements of people for various reasons: in search of employment in the...

Implications of the Rise of "Confucian" East Asia.
January 1, 2000... FOR MORE THAN TWO DECADES, I have been engaged in a transtemporal, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary discussion on the modern significance of Confucian humanism. As an evolving axial-age civilization, the Confucian tradition has undergone...

The Pattern of American Modernity from the Revolution to the Civil War.
January 1, 2000... AGAINST THE BACKDROP of the United States' reassertion of global leadership, the past decade has witnessed renewed interest by historians and social scientists in the American contribution to the emergence of the modern world and the...

From Incomplete Modernity to World Modernity.
January 1, 2000... IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SPEAK of Latin America as a unity; it is more prudent to speak of Latin Americas. Their colonial experiences were different, and not only as between the areas controlled by Portugal and Spain. The indigenous peoples were...