Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Connecting Modernities: A Global Update
- Part I Modernity as We Know It: Narratives of Modernity across the Disciplines
- Part II Modernity under Fire: Critiques, Challenges, and Revisions
- Part III In the Shadow of the Pandemic
- Part IV Imagining New Global Frameworks: Democracy and Modernity-to-Come
- Index
17 - Toward a New Global?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2022
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Connecting Modernities: A Global Update
- Part I Modernity as We Know It: Narratives of Modernity across the Disciplines
- Part II Modernity under Fire: Critiques, Challenges, and Revisions
- Part III In the Shadow of the Pandemic
- Part IV Imagining New Global Frameworks: Democracy and Modernity-to-Come
- Index
Summary
Yet the daydream, because it is common property, extends both into the broad and into the deep expanse, into the non-sublimated, but in fact concentrated expanse, into that of the utopian dimensions. And this automatically posits the better world also as the more beautiful, in the sense of completed images, the like of which have not yet been seen on earth. Through planning or forming, windows are hewn in deprivation, hardness, rawness, banality, with distant prospects, full of light. The daydream as a stepping-stone to art so very obviously intends worldimprovement, has this as its robustly real character. (Bloch 1995 [1959], 94)
Abstract
This chapter unifies cross-disciplinary references, analysis, and conceptualizations of modernity and modernization, highlighting a clear distinction between the spirit of both modernization and modernity. As we saw from different perspectives and criticisms, although modernization operates as a levelling process, modernity still appears to be worth a potential update. From coloniality to pandemic, by connecting modernities and histories, modernity can now represent a global necessity, where awareness of injustice, inequality, and human and environmental crises would create the possibility of a modernity-to-come.
Keywords: modernity-to-come; modernity; modernization; pandemic; social movements
A cross-disciplinary volume is an invitation and a challenge to discover and appreciate the diverse disciplinary approaches and methodologies used in dealing with a single general subject. The book lays out an intellectual landscape that can lead to concord and harmony through the very disciplinary discords it avails its readers. In a way, we, as editors, follow a humanist tradition of representing all perspectives, approaches, and voices on a single stage. We are merely proposing potentials. It is only with the reader's response that dialogues and dialectics will begin to emerge. Nevertheless, throughout the contributions, the book displays common concerns for justice, democracy, well-being, and the planet. Although not in one voice, the contributors call – in different measures and within different contexts – for a modernity that has been missing, the modernity-to-come.
The book is structured to cover four seemingly discreet but interrelated parts. In Part I of the book, we saw how the classic concepts and narratives of modernity have produced paradigmatic questionings in different parts of the world and in fields such as science and technology, mathematics, philosophy, and visual arts. In Part II, modes of modernization and modernity are exposed as sedimented forms of domination, hierarchization, and oppression.
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- Global Modernity from Coloniality to PandemicA Cross-Disciplinary Perspective, pp. 387 - 394Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022