Demodernization. A Future in the Past - Tapa blanda

Rabkin, Yakov

 
9783838211404: Demodernization. A Future in the Past
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ISBN 10: 3838211405 ISBN 13: 9783838211404
Editorial: ibidem-Verlag Haunschild Schoen GbR, 2018

Sinopsis

Medical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plants-these images became common at the turn of the 21st century in many once modern "civilized" countries. In quite a few of them, long-time neighbours came to kill each other, apparently motivated by the newly discovered differences of religion, language, or origin. Civil nationalism gave way to tribal, ethnic, and confessional conflict. Rational arguments of geopolitical nature have been replaced by claims of self-righteousness and moral superiority. These snapshots are not random. They are manifestations of a phenomenon called demodernization that can be observed from the banks of the Neva to the banks of the Euphrates, from the deserts of Central Asia to the English countryside and all the way to the city of Detroit. Demodernization is a growing trend today, but it also has a history. Seventeen scholars, including historians, philosophers, sociologists, and archaeologists, offer their well substantiated views of demodernization. The book is divided into three parts dedicated to conceptual debates as well as historical and contemporary cases. It book provides a wealth of empirical materials and conceptual insights that provide a multi-faceted approach to demodernization.

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Acerca del autor

Yakov M. Rabkin, born and educated in the Soviet Union, is Professor of History at the University of Montreal. His areas of interest include Russian/Soviet history, science and technology studies, and contemporary Jewish history. Author of several books and hundreds of articles, he served as an expert witness for the Standing Committee on External Affairs and International Trade of the Parliament of Canada and cooperated with the OECD and other international organizations on issues of science and technology policy. Mikhail Minakov is Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, DAAD Visiting Professor at Europe University Viadrina, Senior Fellow at the Kennan Institute, and Editor-in-chief of Ideology and Politics Journal. His research interests focus on ideology, social experience, social and political imagination, as well as long term epistemological tendencies in modernity. Mikhail Minakov is an author of over hundred analytical and research papers, and several books including Kants Concept of the Faith of Reason (Parapan, 2001), History of Experience (Parapan, 2007), and Photosophy (Laurus, 2017).

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Editorial
ibidem-Verlag Haunschild Schoen GbR
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
3838211405
ISBN 13 
9783838211404
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
430
Editor
Minakov Mikhail, Rabkin Yakov
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