Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies: Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization ; Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory

In: Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies

In: Routledge Studies in Emerging Societies Ser.

Abstract

Cover -- Global Modernity, Development,and Contemporary Civilization: Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- General Introduction -- Part I: Critical Theory andModern Civilization -- 1. Apogee, Limits and Renewal of Critical Theory -- 2. Civilization and Modernity -- Part II: Polarized Flexible Accumulation inan Unequal World -- Part II: Introduction -- 3. China Takes Off: The East Asian Experience -- 4. Latin America: Slipping Back to the Past? -- 5. India In and Out of South Asia: Dreams and Illusions -- Part II Conclusion -- Part III: Complexity and Re-Embeddings,Solidarity and Abstractions -- Part III: Introduction -- 6. India, Indic Civilization and Social Complexity: The Radical Case -- 7. China: Homogeneity and Post-Communist Pluralization -- 8. Latin America, the West and Complexity -- Part III: Conclusion -- Part IV: Democratization and the Persistence of Domination -- Part IV: Introduction -- 9. The Latin American Molecular Democratic Revolution -- 10. India as a Mass Democracy -- 11. China and the Multilayered Dictatorship -- Part IV: Conclusion -- Final Words -- Notes -- References -- Index.