1st Edition
Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory
General Introduction Part 1: Critical Theory and Modern Civilization 1. Apogee, Limits and Renewal of Critical Theory 2. Civilization and Modernity Part 2: Polarized Flexible Accumulation in an Unequal World Part 2 Introduction 3. China Takes Off: The East Asian Experience 4. Latin America: Slipping Back to the Past? 5. India In and Out of South Asia: Dreams and Illusions. Part 2 Conclusion Part 3: Complexity and Re-Embeddings, Solidarity and Abstractions Part 3 Introduction 6. India, Indic Civilization and Social Complexity: The Radical Case 7. China: Homogeneity and Post-Communist Pluralization 8. Latin America, the West and Complexity. Part 3 Conclusion Part 4: Democracy and the Persistence of Domination Part 4 Introduction 9. The Latin American Molecular Democratic Revolution 10. India as a Mass Democracy 11. China and the Multilayered Dictatorship. Part 4 Conclusion. Final Words.
Biography
José Maurício Domingues holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is Professor at the Institute for Political and Social Studies of Rio de Janeiro State University (IESP-UERJ).
