African, American and European trajectories of modernity past oppression, future justice? / edited by Peter Wagner.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Part I Reconstructing the History of Atlantic Modernity; 1 The American Divergence, the Modern Western World and the Paradigmatisation of History ; 2 The Limits of Recognition: History, Otherness and Autonomy; 3 On Being in Time: Modern African Elites and the Historical Challenge to Claims for Alternative and Multiple Modernities; 4 The Sublime Dignity of the Dictator:1 Republicanism and the Return of Dictatorship in Political Modernity

5 The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: Between Reform and RevolutionPart II Comparing Trajectories of Modernity in the South; 6 Inconsistencies between Social-democratic Discourses and Neo-liberal Institutional Development in Chile and South Africa: a Comparative Analysis of the Post-authoritarian Periods; 7 HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis; 8 Land and Restitution in Comparative Perspective: Analysing the Evidence of Right to Land for Black Rural ommunities in Brazil and South Africa

Part III Claims for Justice in the History of Modernity and in its Present9 An Unsettled Past as a Political Resource; 10 Injustice at Both Ends: Pre- and Post-apartheid Literary Approaches to Injustice, Sentiment and Humanism in the Work of C. Louis Leipoldt, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and the Film Invictus; 11 The Student Movement in Chile 2011-12: Rearming the Critique of Capitalism ; 12 Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: Renewing the Project of Control over Production; Notes on the Contributors; Index

African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity asks why, from some moment onwards, 'Europe' and 'the rest of the world' entered into a particular relationship: one of domination, conceived as a kind of superiority and as an 'advance'

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