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1) Chakrabarty 1992. THE GLOBAL HISTORY OF ÒMODERNITYÓ PETER VAN DER VEER (University of Amsterdam) This paper fi nds its origin in a certain uneasiness with the application of the notion of ÒmodernityÓ to a wide-ranging set of phenomena in world history and with the replacement of an idea of the singularity of modernity by a notion of a multiplicity of Òmodernities.Ó It offers a critical re fl ection on the arguments put forward in the contributions made to JESHO (volume 40, number 4, 1997) by suggesting that it might be preferable to speak of a single modernity and of a multiplicity of histories. This suggestion is made in order to retain a sense of the uniqueness and power of European modernity together with a sense of the complexity and variation of its clash with historical processes in many parts of the world. The paper adopts the view that modernity is a project and an ideology that originates in the Enlightenment. Modernity celebrates freedom from localized, hierarchical bonds, progress in terms of scienti fi c knowledge and economic welfare, and rejects the past in so far it does not fi t the story of progress. The paper also
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1998
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