Delimiting Modernities

Sven Trakulhun is lecturer of history at the Universities of Zurich and Konstanz. Ralph Weber is assistant professor for European Global Studies at the University of Basel.

• Part I. Globalization and the Rethinking of ModernityChapter 1: ‘Of Other Worlds to Come,' Pheng CheahChapter 2: What is ‘Modernities’ a Plural of? – A Rhetorical Analysis of Some Recent Uses, Ralph WeberChapter 3: Varieties of Modernity? Conceptual Prerequisites and Empirical Observations, Volker H. SchmidtChapter 4: The Origins of the Social Sciences and the Problem of Conceptualizing ‘Modernity’/’Modernities,’ Wolfgang KnöblPart II. Sites of Revision, Ways of RevisioningChapter 5: Waiting for the Simorgh: Comparisons, Connections, and the ‘Early Modern,’ Sanjay SubrahmanyamChapter 6: Early Modernity as Cosmopolis: Some Suggestions from Southeast Asia, Anthony ReidChapter 7: Revisioning Modernity: Modernity in Eurasian Perspectives, Arif DirlikChapter 8: New Historicism and Chinese Modernity: Multiple Mythologies Revisited, Andrea RiemenschnitterChapter 9: Making Modern Muslims: Islamic Reform, Hasan al-Banna, and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Gudrun KrämerChapter 10: Dilemmas of Development: Dr. Krisana Kraisintu’s Praxis in Asia and Africa, Tamara Loos

In the current global conjuncture, claims on modernity are proliferating, and we witness increasingly contested debates about early and multiple modernities, and about visions of development outside the frame of Euro-American epistemologies. In this anthology, a group of distinguished scholars offers a wealth of insights and critical perspectives, aiming both at assessing the meaning of these interventions, and to reconfigure the notion of "modernity" for our times.