The Myth of Modernity: Is There a Bigger Picture?
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Origins of Modernity
Hickman argues that we should identify 1492 as the beginning of modernity, rather than the Enlightenment. He says colonialism forced many more people to live and work in shared spaces. Hickman: The secularism that European cultures developed was merely one local response to that global sea change.
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