...This book has developed a framework through which the meanings and implications of Bolivia's modern trajectory can, in part, be understood, by focusing on the emergence and historical transformation of particular social, legal, and discursive patterns. In engaging in an ethnography and critical...

...This chapter challenges the ways in which Islamic modernism has been constructed and theorized, and elaborates upon the conception of Islamic tradition and historical change that is central to the book's argument. In addition, it introduces al-Mahdī al-Wazzānī and his New Miʻyār within the wider...

... to both challenge and accommodate the historical change dictated by Moroccan modernity. Fiqh jurisprudence critique of Mālikī Ilm knowledge associated with sharī'a scholarship New Mi’yār al Mi'yār al jadid Orthodoxy pre Protectorate period 1860 1912 Reform Islamic Christians Europe Jews Jihād...

... for a fatwā Mustaftī questioner Fiqh jurisprudence critique of Mālikī Reform Islamic Islamic law New Miʻyār fatwās ḥubus nafaqa gender family history pre-Protectorate Morocco Moroccan modernity In this Chapter, my interrogation of al-Mahdī al-Wazzānī's New Mi'yār takes us...

...This chapter discusses in detail one concept that was introduced in the previous chapter, which is reflexive modernity. Reflexive modernity is considered as a stage in the development of modern society. It is also viewed as necessary because of its ability to provide a shrewd diagnosis of the main...

...This chapter takes the discussion on reflexive modernity to a more specific level by focusing on evaluation conducted under reflexively modern situations. It shows what evaluation looks like when it has a cultural compatibility with reflexive modernization. This chapter also tries to list...

... consciousness. The historicization of human existence lies at the heart of modernity. The discussion argues that the moment European society came to deem historicity to be a fundamental mode of being in the world, it also realized that to be in the world necessarily meant to inhabit the earth...

...The aspects of life transformed through modernization can be summarized in terms identified by Michel de Certeau, whose “supersessionist” model for modernity reflects a transition from orality to literacy. This model appears to be suitable for understanding the dramatic transition in the purely...

...This chapter compares haskole and negritude, two philosophical movements that seek modernization without assimilation to the modern hegemony. Haskole attempts to Judaize the Enlightenment, a “universal” movement, by revising ideas that primarily came from France...

...This book explores modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century, as well as the geography of Hebrew modernism, especially the roles of the European cities and urban centers from which it emanated. The issues of sexuality and gender in modernist fiction are also...

... an interesting take on the long historical discourse of consciousness, subjectivity, revolutionary spirit, and spiritual civilization. It also explores the contemporary debate about Chinese modernity and portrays contemporary Chinese society as a sensually oppressive set of small boxes. Although...

... economic and social crisis, while veiling the unequal reality of transatlantic influence. The nostalgic Anglo-American Bicentennial celebrated this end of the special relations of an overtly American form of late modernity and its replacement by another. Armstrong Anne Bicentennial the U S Anglo American...

... Homel Gomel modernity engagement marriage tradition assimilation marital conflict children Jewish Judaism Women do not write books about men. Why are women … so much more interesting to men than men are to women? —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own It is doubtful...

...This book has argued that the main theoretical value of the term “Baroque” stems from its relation as an aesthetic category to modernity. It has also claimed that the historical Baroque's distinct fascination with certain aesthetic traits is a result of its privileged position at the dawn...

...The book opens its investigation of the category of the “off” by examining a paradigmatic painting of the early modern period, Rembrandt’s The Sacrifice of Isaac. The painting is shown to involve a reflection on the historical significance of the modern category of the “off”. The key element...

... it reverberates in their articulation of poetry's realm, tools, and public in ways that sustain secularism's sequestering of spheres. Nine years into the Palestinian collapse of 1948, one poet, Mahmoud Darwish, published the first free verse in al-Jadid. In the narrative of another modern Arab...

...As an introduction to the book, this chapter explains what motivated the author to investigate and narrate the story of his patrilineal ancestors, the Paks, who descended from a certain Pak Tŏkhwa (1590–?). The author has not only discovered that they formed a chungin lineage in early modern Korea...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about marriage, modernity, and the connection between law and literature in modern Iran. The book analyzes how the texts of novels were understood both at the moment of their historical moments of enunciation as well as at later...

...This book explores an alternate form of modernity, one that is strangely different from the familiar modernity of liberal capitalism. It defines this strange system simply as capitalist modernity and argues that the socialist alternative is no political formation at all, but a system...

...—for denying intellectual significance to East European socialism. It reviews the enthusiasm of the triumph of liberalism and argues that the true site of socialism is the point where systemic alterity vanishes, where bourgeois modernity sees itself as an immanent transcendence enveloping any rivalry...