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Introduction: The Epistemological Ritual of Modernity, and logical frame. The core argument of this book is that the idea of modernity constrains social theory within the very boundaries that should be problematized. These boundaries are either the limits that the notion of modernity draws around the comprehension and interpretation of long-term/large-

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Modernity and Eurocentrism,nge that have occurred over the last five centuries. Nonetheless, tales of renewed European centrality, exceptionality and superiority are far from being dismissed. Any theoretical standpoint within the theoretical framework of modernity has little chance of avoiding the question of what stance it t

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,The Predicament of the ‘Global’,hensive, all-inclusive, unified, total”). In the twentieth century, the more active and historical form—globalization—appears, parallel to other comparable historical markers such as “modernization” and “industrialization” and related to the notions of postmodernity.’ In what follows, I connote the

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Book 2016cepts. This ground-breaking work challenges social theoriststo think globally beyond modernity, bringing together social theory and science in an unprecedented way. Importantly, it makes accessible a new space of missing theorization for further developments and inquiries in the field..