Technology made modernity possible. It has been the engine of modernity, shaping it and propelling it forward. The Renaissance was made possible by major fourteenthand fifteenth-century inventions like the mechanical clock, the full-rigged ship, fixed-viewpoint perspective, global maps, and the printing press. The emergence of industrial society in the eighteenth century was the result of an in...

This paper aims to show the centrality the concept of progress occupies explicitly and implicitly in social theory, in relation to the theorization and understanding of modernity; it also raises the question whether in times where Eurocentrism, logocentrism, and indeed almost every claim of supremacy are rightly viewed with suspicion, it is possible to think of modernity without relying on some...

This article shows to what extent the new situation in our late-modern societies can see a further deepening of social control typical soft totalitarianism we experience globalised democracies, through mechanisms already denounced by Arendt her The Origins Totalitarianism (1951): promotion rootlessness and superfluity. In particular, paper focus on Eliot (1927) called hollow man or philosophy s...

Turkey has long been a country which exercises secular state system. Its constitution identifies the country as a secular one, and state institutions are no doubt secular. It has been the state’s policy to exercise laicism on every level from education to legal system since the establishment of the Republic in 1923. Yet, this policy did not end up with Turkish people turning away from religion....

This paper explores the Gandhian Ashram as a reaction to the forces of modernity in the late 19 th and early 20 th Centuries. Its deviation from the existing historiography is primarily in its exploration of the Ashram as one of many incidents of communal experiments at the time, which have an interesting geographic connection in London. I note Gandhi's readings of John Ruskin and Leo Tolstoy, ...