The labyrinth of modernity

Rowman & Littlefield

2020

vii, 221 p.

Social imaginaries

9781786608666

1. Introduction ; 2. Modernity: One, Many, and Divided ; 3. Life Orders and Articulations ; Perspectives on Capitalism ; Domains of the Political ; Meaning and Modernity ; 4. Contexts and Phases of Modernity ; Periodizing Modernity ; Lost, Found, and Faraway Modernities ; 5. The Road to St. Petersburg ; Aspects of the Short Twentieth Century ; Communism in Context ; The Leninist Syndrome and Its Sources ; 6. The Soviet Model ; The Formation of an Alternative Modernity ; Totalitarianism in Context ; Change and Crisis ; 7. East Asian Complications ; The Civilizational Background ; Politics and Religion ; Transformations of the Soviet Model ; After Maoism ; The Question of Chinese Democracy ; 8. Concluding Reflections: Global Modernities in World Context ; Civilizational Perspectives ; Historical Landmarks and Conceptual Signposts

Английский