Against Eurocentrism : A Transcendent Critique of Modernist Science, Society, and Morals / by R. Kanth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajani Kannepalli Kanth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Econometrics.

Political science.

Political science--Philosophy.

Globalization.

Sociology.

Anthropology.

Quantitative Economics.

Political Theory.

Political Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Quantitative Economics.

Political Theory.

Political Philosophy.

Globalization.

Sociology.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities. Kanth argues that while modernism is possessed of some virtues, they are purchased at far too high a cost - indeed a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, he further suggests that no other posture is at all ecologically responsible. Kanth suggests, breaking with the manifold paradigms of European expansionism or find ourselves, soon enough, living on a planet damaged beyond recovery.

Contents:

1. The modernist problematic : the crossing of the rubicon

2. The utopian impulse : mnemonics of affective society

3. The fatal conceit : elisions of materialism

4. On human emancipation : the archaeology of discontent.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611364212

9781281364210

1281364215

9781403978790

1403978794

OCLC:

476087641