Table of Contents

pp 5-8

Preface

pp 9-10

1 - Connecting Modernities: A Global Update

pp 11-34

Part I - Modernity as We Know It: Narratives of Modernity across the Disciplines

pp 35-36

2 - Technology and the Texture of Modernity

pp 37-60

3 - Math and Modernity: Critical Reflections

pp 61-80

4 - Stranded Modernity: Post-war Hiroshima as Discursive Battlefield

pp 81-104

5 - The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity: (Mis)Understanding of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab and Islamicate Worlds

pp 105-130

6 - The Missing Body: Figurative Representations in Islamic Iconography

pp 131-156

Part II - Modernity under Fire: Critiques, Challenges, and Revisions

pp 157-158

7 - Criticism of “Colonial Modernity” through Kurdish Decolonial Approaches

pp 159-186

8 - Conflicting Modernities: Militarization and Islands

pp 187-206

9 - Project Modernity: From Anti-colonialism to Decolonization

pp 207-228

Part III - In the Shadow of the Pandemic

pp 229-230

10 - Modernity and Decision-Making for Global Challenges

pp 231-256

11 - Public Health Confronts Modernity in the Shadow of the Pandemic

pp 257-276

12 - Human Identity and COVID-19: Space and Time in the Post-modern Era

pp 277-294

Part IV - Imagining New Global Frameworks: Democracy and Modernity-to-Come

pp 295-296

13 - Environmentalism: A Challenge to Modernity

pp 297-320

14 - The Cognitive Immune System: The Mind’s Ability to Dispel Pathological Beliefs

pp 321-348

15 - Representative Democracy as Kitsch, and Artificial Intelligence’s Promise of Emancipation

pp 349-370

16 - Subjectivation, Modernity, and Hypermodernity

pp 371-386

17 - Toward a New Global?

pp 387-394

Index

pp 395-401