Indigenous Philosophy and Multiple Modernities

Islamic Reform and Modernities in South Asia

From the beginning of the Islamic era, Muslim societies have experienced periods of renewal (tajdid). Since the eighteenth century, Muslim societies across the world have been subject to a prolonged and increasingly deeply felt process of renewal. This has been expressed in different ways in different contexts. Amongst political elites with immediate concerns to answer the challenges of the Wes...

Alternative Modernities for Colonial Korea

Multiple Modernities in Bulgaria: Social Strategies of Capitalist Entrepreneurs in the Agrarian Sector

Th e article focuses on trust/mistrust relations, strategies of cooperation, and emerging confl icts in the period of establishing capitalist reforms in Bulgaria aft er 1989. In this frame, trust building, as a key challenge for a successful transformation process, is analysed as a premise for cooperation and social cohesion in the process of reforming governance, establishing local institution...

Postmodernism, Philosophy and Literature

No special definite definition does exist for postmodernism however it has had an inordinate effect on art, architecture, music, film, literature, philosophy, sociology, communications, fashion, and technology. The main body of this work can be seen as an admiration and reverence for the values and ideals associated with postmodern philosophy as well as postmodern literature. , I have argued th...

Muslims and Modernities: From Islamism to Post-Islamism?

A !is article problematizes the complexity of Muslim approaches to the question of modernity. It challenges both a hegemonic voice of a singular and superior Western modernity and an essentialist Islamist response to modernity. It examines the alternative approach of multiple modernities. !is approach calls for a critical dialogue and negotiation between tradition and modernity, expedite...