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The Modern Moves West

2009
Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Dilemmas of Professional Culture 1. The Case for Modern Art as a Distinct Form of Knowledge 2. Modern Art in a Provincial Nation 3. Modern Art and California's Progressive Legacies 4. From an Era of Grand Ambitions 5. Becoming Postmodern 6. California Assemblage: Art as Counterhistory 7.
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Iranians' intellectual confrontation with the modern West and modernity

2021
Encountering the modern West introduced a new era in Iran’s history. For Iranians that had a long tradition of philosophical contemplation, thinking about the various aspects of the encounter soon became a major intellectual activity. At first, the concentration was on gaining knowledge of the modern West and finding the socio-political causes of Iran ...
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The West that is not in the West: identifying the self in Oriental modernity

Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2010
This paper discusses the meaning of ‘the West’ in Chinese and Japanese political discourse. It argues that for Japanese and Chinese political thinkers, the West does not exist in the West. Rather, the West is sometimes at the periphery and, at other times, at the centre. For them, ‘the Chinese’ is about the epistemology of all-under-heaven. There is no
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Modern India and the West

Diogenes, 1964
India's ancient contacts with Europe receded from the sixth century A.D. The crotchety Byzantine monk Cosmas Indicopleustes (the man who sailed to India), a merchant engaged in the Far Eastern trade whose business took him as far as Ceylon and who in later life retired into a monastery of Sinai where he wrote the
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Modernity and the Politics of the West

2008
Abstract In his homily at the Mass prior to his election Ratzinger rhetorically asked: ‘how many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking?’ He suggested that the western world was currently in the throes of a dictatorship of relativism that did not recognize anything as ...
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The West: “Ambiguous Modern”

2010
The “West” is both a geopolitical construct and an idea. Armenia’s relationship with it and understanding of it should be considered within the context of postcommunism because the very concept of the “West” has been solidified and coined in reference to the “East.” Hence, in the Armenian foreign policy thinking and practice, it is defined first and ...
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The West No Longer Owns Modernity

New Perspectives Quarterly, 2011
China's remarkable progress has shown that modernity does not only belong to the West. At the same time, China's modernization has been largely fueled by direct investment of foreign firms which also dominate key technologies and critical positions in the global supply chain.
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Modernism: A West Coast Interpretation

Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, 2013
Writing about the Bay Area art scene in 1985, critic Thomas Albright noted that Sargent Johnson was one of the more innovative artists of the late 1930s. Despite all the information available about Johnson, and perhaps because of the experimentation with which he approached his artwork, he remains in many ways an enigma. Out of the little that is known,
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The New Age in the Modern West

2016
New Age culture is generally regarded as a modern manifestation of Western millenarianism - a concept built around the expectation of an imminent historical crisis followed by the inauguration of a golden age which occupies a key place in the history of Western ideas.
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The West and Siam's Quest for Modernity

South East Asia Research, 2009
This paper examines the interactions that occurred between Westerners and the Siamese elite in the nineteenth century.
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