Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Connecting Modernities
A Global Update
Simone Maddanu and Hatem N. Akil
Part I Modernity as We Know It: Narratives of Modernity across the Disciplines
2. Technology and the Texture of Modernity
Alessandro Mongili
3. Math and Modernity: Critical Reflections
Lucio Cadeddu
4. Stranded Modernity
Post-war Hiroshima as Discursive Battlefield
Daishiro Nomiya
5. The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity
(Mis)Understanding of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab and Islamicate Worlds
Housamedden Darwish
6. The Missing Body
Figurative Representations in Islamic Iconography
Hatem N. Akil
Part II Modernity under Fire: Critiques, Challenges, and Revisions
7. Criticism of "Colonial Modernity" through Kurdish Decolonial Approaches
Engin Sustam
8. Conflicting Modernities
Aide Esu and Simone Maddanu
9. Project Modernity: From Anti-colonialism to Decolonization
Shumaila Fatima and David Jacobson
Part III In the Shadow of the Pandemic
10. Modernity and Decision-Making for Global Challenges
Elizabeth G. Dobbins
11. Public Health Confronts Modernity in the Shadow of the Pandemic
Richard Cooper
12. Human Identity and COVID-19
Space and Time in the Post-modern Era
Rachid Id Yassine and Beatriz Mesa
Part IV Imagining New Global Frameworks: Democracy and Modernity-to-Come
13. Environmentalism
Antimo Luigi Farro
14. The Cognitive Immune System
The Mind's Ability to Dispel Pathological Beliefs
Barry Mauer
15. Representative Democracy as Kitsch, and Artificial Intelligence's Promise of Emancipation
Marius C. Silaghi
16. Subjectivation, Modernity, and Hypermodernity
Alain Touraine
17. Toward a New Global?
Hatem N. Akil and Simone Maddanu
Index.