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modernity the excerpt mill the excerpt mill blog about posts tagged modernity the falsehood of multiple modernities published august 27 2011 imperialism marxism philosophy politics postmodernism žižek leave a comment tags marxism modernity parallax view philosophy postmodernism slavoj žižek the parallax view žižek on white by wassily kandinsky critiquing the concept of alternate modernities and its consequences toward understanding universalist theories žižek explains the significance of this critique reaches far beyond the case of modernity it concerns the fundamental limitation of nominalist historicizing the recourse to multiplication there is not one modernity with a fixed essence there are multiple modernities each of them irreducible to others is false not because it does not recognize a unique fixed essence of modernity but because multiplication functions as the disavowal of the antagonism that inheres to the notion of modernity as such the falsity of multiplication resides in the fact that it frees the universal notion of modernity of its antagonism of the way it is embedded in the capitalist system by relegating this aspect to just one of the historical subspecieis jameson s critique of the notion of alternate modernities thus provides a model of the properly dialectic relationship between the universal and the particular the difference is not on the side of particular content as the traditional differentia specifica but on the side of the universal the universal is not the encompassing container of the particular content the peaceful medium background of the conflict of particularities in other words the universal names the site of a problem deadlock of a burning question and the particulars are the attempted but failed answers to this problem 34 35 reference žižek slavoj 2009 the parallax view cambridge massachusetts mit press archives archives select month july 2012 1 march 2012 2 february 2012 2 november 2011 2 september 2011 1 august 2011 2 june 2011 1 may 2011 4 march 2011 2 january 2011 2 may 2010 1 april 2010 1 march 2010 1 january 2010 2 december 2009 2 november 2009 6 october 2009 4 september 2009 14 august 2009 5 july 2009 5 june 2009 18 philosophy theory links cambridge companion series of philosophy the entire cambridge companion series with entire book and chapter extracts internet encyclopedia of philosophy an encyclopedia edited written by academics marxists internat archieve a huge archive on almost every marxist oxford handbooks on philosophy a full range of short handbooks on philosophy from oxford university philosophy bites podcasts of top philosophers interviewed on bite sized topics project gutenberg a non profit website with thousands of books to read online routledge encyclopedia of philosophy routledge s philosophy encyclopedia online stanford encyclopedia of philosophy the free dictionary on philosophy by stanford university my tweet ramblings tweets by jackstephens blogs my main blog my main blog the mustard seed a kinda poststructural marxist leninist mishmash my internet ramblings my adventures in rambling literature my goodreads profile books i m reading or have read my google books profile books i ve read am reading or wanna read rambling excerpts anthropology art countries regions china eastern africa france germany israel palestine italy latin america philippines russia uganda united states vietnam economics keynes history philosophy althusser badiou beauvoir bourdieu communism deconstructionism derrida du bois existentialism fanon feminism gramsci hegel heidegger kant lévi strauss lefebvre liberalism lukacs mao marx marxism merleau ponty negri phenomenology plato postcolonial postmodernism pre socratic sartre structuralism žižek politics human rights imperialism occupation war workers unions race black filipino white sociology theology create a free website or blog at wordpress com rss entries and rss comments subscribe subscribed the excerpt mill sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy the excerpt mill subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website design a site like this with wordpress com get started