...Murat Belge Turkey, like many Westernizing/modernizing societies, was for a long time ruled by an “enlightened” minority, composed of the urban intelligentsia and the bureaucracy. The military formed the backbone of this elite. From the end of the Second World War, a multiparty parliamentary system...

... school) the place of Jews (and Muslims) as excluded from the project of modernity, but it is to say that within this framework, the alternative epistemologies that still need to be elaborated as a process of decolonizing and breaking free from the powers of Western empire must involve some...

...; it is something better.—Quentin Crisp In some of the earliest and most salient attempts to understand the nature of what has been called Western modernity, across a range of discourses and modes of thought, the term lifestyle has been embarrass- ingly central. Embarrassingly, because...

... then comes back to the “civilized” world but refuses to write about the secret. He shall not be part of the Western community of knowledge, the community of university professors. Instead, he becomes an archivist at Yale. The commentary asks about the founding dichotomy between knowledge and the archive...

... alternatives to an agenda of “modernity” driven exclusively by Western models. Translated by Ted Huters and Yangyang Zong © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Voices of Good and Evil: What Is Enlightenment? Rereading Lu Xun’s “Toward a Refutation of Malevolent Voices...

... . 1998 . The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds . New York : W. W. Norton . Tang Xiaobing . 1996 . Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Liang Tian . 2005...

... “liquid modernity” concept, Calasso describes the political and ethical consequences of the loss of the sacred in our unnamed, ominous present. The result of this process is the historical creation of the Homo saecularis in the age of digital culture, whose cultural inconsistency is an expression...

... more importantly, by virtue of radi- cally altering how music was consumed, they enabled new modalities of existence for black subjects within and against Western modernity: sonic Afro-modernity. Given the brief gloss on sonic Afro-modernity, how might we ascertain its subject? Can it even suggest...

... participate in the “piety move- ment” by showing that there is self-­conscious agency in their submission to the divine will, their willing embrace of an extremely patriarchal theology.8 In a global perspective, she suggests, freedom is overrated, a sort of fetish of Western modernity. Mahmood...

... essay on Western modernism become the profoundly scholarly critic of the Rus- sian nineteenth- century novelist? That early essay had opened publica- tion opportunities to Frank, and, with the support of Tate, it won him a Fulbright to Paris, held from 1948 to 1950 (Freidin 2013: 697). He married...

... regionalization. Increasingly, “Asia” as a historical category resulting from an “ema- nation” model of World History, in which the fons et origo of the modern world is Western Europe—the entrenched binary opposition of the modern West counterposed against traditional Asia vital during the era...

... of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Miller, Ruth A. Seven Stories of Threatening Speech: Women’s Suffrage Meets Machine Code. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. The Right to Look: A Counterhistory...

... jurist Carl Schmitt’s Hobbesian thesis that modern liberal democratic politics are always enacted accord- ing to the dictates of the Friend/foe binary opposition—that­ con- stitutes his major contribution towards ameliorating our precarious global, post-­Western historical...

..., literally, toward roots and a hands-on working-through of those roots. (At one point, Yukie says, “I have found my roots in that village The politics of temporality set up in the narrative transition thus evokes the classic opposition between Westernized modernity and native tradition...

.... The present disrup- tion of collective imagination is a disarticulation of the time of modernity, which presumed that the trajectory of Western development would deter- mine the world as a whole. The term globalization first became prevalent in public discourse in the 1990s, when it described a spatial...

... question that needs further exploration. The generalization of this dichotomy is closely related to the development of modern Western thought. Wang Hui / Science, Culture, Knowledge  127 transformed. The modern nation-state system has to achieve the following goals...

..., and to restore to Turkey the glory and power of the Ottoman Empire. According to Buck-Morss,­ the present title was inspired by a state- ment of Davutoğlu’s in a 1994 essay, where he countered Jürgen Haber- mas’s notion of modernity as an unfinished project by arguing “from within Western...

... coerced adja- cency with that of Western modernity in the current political order of colo- nialism does not altogether overshadow their precolonial genealogies—this is seen not only in Ahmad ʿAbd al-Jawād’s institutional conservatism and Amina’s popular superstition, but most importantly...

... of the former Soviet military and security apparatus. 8 Central to Dugin's theory is an alternative to liberalism, in which liberalism embodies the persistent force of “secular Western modernity,” whose “dictatorship” can be fought against only by reclaiming the geopolitics of neo-Eurasianism (“Interview...

... outward from the heartlands of capital advanced’’ societies such as Western Europe and the United States), an exemplary tra- jectory of modernization sweeping across the world. See Georges Charensol, 40 ans de cinéma, 1895–1935: Panorama du cinéma muet et parlant (Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1935...