Global Modernity

&quote;A compelling essay on the contemporary human condition.&quote; William D. Coleman, Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University &quote;An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism.&quote; Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University In his provocative new book Arif Dirlik argues that the present represents not the beginning of globalization, but its end. We are instead in a new era in the unfolding of capitalism -- &quote;global modernity&quote;. The fall of communism in the 1980s generated culturally informed counter-claims to modernity. Globalization has fragmented our understanding of what is &quote;modern&quote;. Dirlik's &quote;global modernity&quote; is a concept that enables us to distinguish the present from its Eurocentric past, while recognizing the crucial importance of that past in shaping the present.