Learning to Forget: The Anti-Memoirs of Modernity

by Dipankar Gupta

This project is written as a mission to separate the modern from the contemporaneous, to revisit the idea of modernity and to de-link it from superficial traits of westernization. Discussing the difference between modernization and westoxication, the book is a phenomenological treatment that
is abstract and yet illustrative, when discussing issues such as affirmative action, citizenship, and development in India. This book argues that given the reality of mistaken modernity and the idealization of the past in many societies of the South, it is necessary to make the case for modernity as
uncompromisingly as possible.

258 pages, Hardcover

First published November 3, 2005

Reviews

[Jessica Zu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Inter subjectivity and ISO ontology, interesting concepts, but not sure if they are accurate descriptions of the monster we often call modernity