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Showing posts with label Diverse Modernity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diverse Modernity. Show all posts
Sunday, August 7, 2016
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Diverse Modernity replacing Muscular Modernity
Muscular Modernity is hardly dead, not judging by the recent insurgent success of strongman politics all over the world, from Putin to Trump to Duterte.
But it no longer holds an intellectual hegemony over us --- in fact its appeal is almost entirely to the non-intellectual today, making a striking contrast to its widespread appeal among intellectuals of all sorts in the period between 1885 and 1945.
We are told - all too often - that a placeholder term, Postmodernity, is what has replaced Modernity, since about the early 1970s.
But I think we can do better, much better : to be more accurate, Muscular modernity is being replaced by Diverse modernity....
But it no longer holds an intellectual hegemony over us --- in fact its appeal is almost entirely to the non-intellectual today, making a striking contrast to its widespread appeal among intellectuals of all sorts in the period between 1885 and 1945.
We are told - all too often - that a placeholder term, Postmodernity, is what has replaced Modernity, since about the early 1970s.
But I think we can do better, much better : to be more accurate, Muscular modernity is being replaced by Diverse modernity....
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