Learning to Forget: The Anti-memoirs of ModernityThis project is written as a mission to separate the modern from the contemporaneous, to revisit the idea of modernity and to de-link it from superficial traits of westernization. Discussing the difference between modernization and westoxication, the book is a phenomenological treatment that is abstract and yet illustrative, when discussing issues such as affirmative action, citizenship, and development in India. This book argues that given the reality of mistaken modernity and the idealization of the past in many societies of the South, it is necessary to make the case for modernity as uncompromisingly as possible. |
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Project Modernity | 1 |
Learning to Forget | 39 |
The Domesticated Public | 61 |
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References to this book
Heritage and Identity: Engagement and Demission in the Contemporary World Marta Anico,Elsa Peralta No preview available - 2008 |