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“Modernity” and the Making of Social Order in Twentieth-Century Europe (2014)

Contemporary European History
Volume: 23
Pages: 209--224

DOI: 10.1017/S0960777314000137

Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Part of the Forum “Stephen Kotkin's Magnetic Mountain (1995)”.
Language: English

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Modernism Social sciences Social class Science and economics Science and society Science and politics Postmodernism Modern 20th century, late Germany Russia

It is hard not to be struck by the continuing interest in the concept of `modernity' or `the modern' for making sense of the economic, cultural and political transformations of twentieth-century Europe. Seemingly laid to rest by the early 1980s for its association with modernisation theory, modernity as a concept was revived during the late 1980s and 1990s largely by European historians working on countries, especially Germany and Russia, with nineteenth- and twentieth-century histories that modernisation theorists deemed models of developmental backwardness or case studies in the failure to modernise and its consequences. But, like its striking re-appearance in scholarship on those areas of the world -- especially Asia and Africa -- written off as the most irredeemably un-modern or `traditional' by modernisation theorists, this renewed interest in modernity derives from very different interventions in post-structuralist theory and cultural and postcolonial studies, which have generated new definitions, and critiques `modernity' and its `dark side' from the vantage point of `postmodernity'.

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