Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization : Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory (Paperback)

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 Part2 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. Part2 Conclusion Part 3: Complexity and Re-Embeddings, Solidarity and Abstractions Part3 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. Part3 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. Part4 Conclusion. Final Words.