Daedalus, January 1st, 2000
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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 against the view of the "classical" theories of modernization and of the convergence of industrial societies prevalent in the 1950s, and indeed against the classical sociological analyses of Marx, Durkheim, and (to a large extent) even of Weber, at least in one reading of his work. They all assumed, even if only implicitly, that the cultural program of moder...
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