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This book, which ranges between the fields of sociology, political science, philosophy, cultural anthropology, and literature, offers a critique of normative models of modernization derived from Eurocentric and North Atlantic paradigms, while claiming that autonomous paths to modernity exist in the Mediterranean and the so-called Global Souths. Its rethinking of the South seeks to reverse the North–South relationship: “not to think of the South in light of modernity, but rather to think of modernity in light of the South.” In this work, the South is no longer a belated, imperfect, incomplete, and not-yet North, but the space of a differential, autonomous identity to be recovered and rediscovered. Thus, the book not only exemplifies a critique of Occidentalism but represents an attempt to restore agency and dignity to the heritage and legacies of Southern civilizations and cultures. Four additional essays supplement this English translation of the original Italian book.
Keywords: Global Souths; North–South relationship; autonomous identity; cultural anthropology; Occidentalism; modernization; Eurocentric paradigms; North Atlantic paradigms; modernity; Southern civilizations
Book. 224 pages.
Subjects: Philosophy
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