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In the Hegelian view, histories were expressed by particular nationalities but expressed through the records of the state which embodies reason. Thus, by this time, linear histories appear to be established (of course, for Hegel, it was not secular in the strict sense of the word). But what is less understood is how these histories became bound as
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Nonetheless, the early twentieth-century traditions of rural reconstruction, especially the ideas of Liang Shuming, have had a major impact on the contemporary rural-reconstruction movement in China.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
While both societies are making laudable environmental efforts, their impact on relieving the wreckage being produced by their current models is quite inadequate. A global effort with justifiable sacrifices on all sides is the urgent call of the day.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Many of the Asian expressions of dialogical transcendence bear a resemblance to philosophical ideas of complexity today.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
is now the established view that, contrary to the writings of earlier generations of historians, the eighteenth century was not a ‘Dark Age’ in India. The political decline of the Mughal imperium resulted, rather, in an economic resurgence in other parts of the subcontinent, and much recent academic research has been dedicated to deepening our unde
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I began my understanding of transcendence as a meta-epistemic locus for the authoritative moral understanding of the world which inherently or ultimately tended to elude domination by worldly powers, even though the history of the world is the history of the attempt to dominate this locus.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)

As such, a principal goal of this chapter is to explore the relationships between circulatory historical ideas and practices and Cultural anchors of transcendence.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
A mutiny in the archive.