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may be able to reconfigure the absolute sovereignty of nations;
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
while contemporary histories have yet to join theirs with the cosmic imperatives of our times.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Let us turn to this local–universal tension from a somewhat different but closely related angle to put it in a wider perspective.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
But approaches to sustainability, which we will consider here, have yet to be integrated with these espousals.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Global sustainability requires a cosmopolitanism that is able to transcend the nation.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Historically, a less radical, ‘dialogical transcendence’ has pervaded…
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Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
empowerment it has authorized historically and the limits it had set on human overreach – that a dialectics of transcendence can remain relevant to our world.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
When a history is contested – whether in the academic or political world – the narrative is often simultaneously altered or inflected.