... of modernity, history, and geopolitics are mutually involved. Embodying tensions between teleology and cyclicality, repetition and difference, locality and globality, spirals challenge familiar modes of organizing disciplines of study. Spirals not only complicate literary and art history's familiar...

...This chapter explains the role of John Paul II in the renaissance of the Catholic Church. Catholic Church Godsell Geoffrey John Paul II Pope Karol Wojtyła Khomeini Ruhollah Ayatollah communism modernity Pius IX Pope Second Vatican Council Vatican II Centesimus Annus John Paul II 1991 Il...

...” (plumpes Denken) and Walter Benjamin’s theoretical commentary on it, the chapter considers the afterness of a specific modality of thinking as a test case for modernity’s political investments. What plumpes Denken ultimately would require of us in the uncontainable Greek event...

...This book has explored the concept of afterness that has been expressed by the texts of modernity in many guises. It has attempted to concretize, in a variety of conceptual registers, the question as to what kind of a “beginning” the concept and experience of afterness always will have been...

..., and then address how new neoliberal and transnational forces in the country set the stage for a discourse on political and moral activism. It argues that while Sunnite women are unlikely to shun modernity, they will attempt to embrace it on their own terms, even if this means creating new subjectivities...

...J. Brooks Jessup’s chapter explores how Chinese Buddhist identity acquired new meaning in the modern urban context of early twentieth-century Shanghai. Focusing on the construction of religious space at one of the city's premiere lay Buddhist associations, Jessup shows that Buddhist identity...

... spaces shaped concurrent (or “convergent”) practices of cinematic, artistic, and industrial production, all while adapting to the changing infrastructure of modernizing Paris. Cité Elgé Delluc Louis Dwan Allan Gaumont infrastructure Intolerance Griffith 1916 Pickfair Robin Hood Dwan 1922 studios...

...The chapter takes a keyword approach using figures of modernity to supplement the narrative approach of Chapter 3 to rethinking modernity. It argues against terms like alternate, other, minor, and marginal and argues for terms like multiple, plural, and recurrent. It proposes clusters of relational...

...The chapter argues that modernism is not a single style, movement or period; instead, modernism is best understood as the aesthetic dimension of any given modernity, interacting with other society domains such as politics, economics, military, culture, etc. It tests the usefulness of this approach...

...; expansion; modern vs. non-modern; postmodernity and the contemporary; tradition; terminological entropy; hermeneutic circle; modernity as “Western” concept; modernism as Western aesthetics; modernization as westernization; empire; gender; and institutional pragmatism. The book concludes with the recognition...

... of his thought, the book frames an original interpretation of Wittgenstein's engagement with Western metaphysics and modernity, better contextualizing the force of his work. It synthesizes several approaches to Wittgenstein's life and thought. It stresses the nontheoretical aspirations...

... Revolution Mao Zedong population four modernizations globalization modernity modernization democracy harmonious society Hu Jintao labor pluralism Rocca Jean Louis Taiwan Guomindang Hermet Guy violence China future economic growth recession modernity harmonious society communism...

... Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936). The chapter argues that the works of Joyce and Anand are a complex textual exchange that highlights the geographical specificity of their colonial critiques. A reading of Anand's works reveals that his modernism links back to Joyce's work...

... of existentialism that is historically informed, porous, and sensitive to national variation. That is, to describe existentialism is to reconstruct an interchange among a group of thinkers from different regions who came to share a vocabulary for naming a set of problems in the shared setting of modernity. The book...

... experience of colonial modernity significantly shapes the innovative aesthetics of modernist fiction. The book explores the global life of this narrative aesthetic, from late-colonial modernism to the present day, focusing on a writer each from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and India. Ranging from...

... Baibide yu renwen zhuyi Babbitt and humanism Chen Yinke Chen Yinque Crescent Moon Society guogu scholars Liang Shiqiu Lin Yutang Tang Yongtong Wang Guowei Bell Daniel Renaissance Enlightenment Tradition Modernity Revolution humanistic and rationalist China In recent years, the May Fourth...

...This introductory chapter discusses the concept of religion, which most scholars view as a product of Western modernity. A vital aspect of its genealogy is the deep suspicion about the power of Christian institutions that signified the thinking of Western intellectuals in the Enlightenment...

... prominent politician of the modern era to seriously question the “withering away” and “extinction” of the state, and that, like Karl Marx, he recognized the link between capitalism and modern sovereignty and the need to destroy capitalism and reconfigure the state. The book refrains from portraying Lenin...

...This chapter demonstrates how Modernity’s idea of its own worldliness is grounded in the principle of self-preservation. Nietzsche, however, argues that self-preservation is a case of the will to power. For him, Modernity, being the embodiment of the principle of self-preservation, should...

...This chapter focuses on the traveler Chateaubriand, who had a deep understanding of the emergent temporal order of modernity and managed to transform his experience of a break, rift, or breach in time into the very mainspring of his writing. Toward the end of the preface to his extraordinary...