Western Modernity: The Origin, Development and the Limitation

Md. Shafiqur Rahaman

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Western Modernity: The Origin, Development and the Limitation

Md. Shafiqur Rahaman

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Received: 19 January 2022 Accepted: 6 February 2022 Published: 3 March 2022

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The paper attempts to investigate the historical origin, development and the limitation of the western modernity. It pursues why and how the western modernity was developed from eighteen centuries to twenties centuries. While discussing early chronological, sociological and political developments of the western modernity it requires the separation of the state from the religious autocracy and the establishment of technology based industrial society. The early modernity shaped western countries from traditional society to industrialization made surplus of products that tended them to establish colonialism in Asia, Africa and Latin American countries. However, the changing structural politico-economic system provide classical theories of modernity which installed US hegemony in East Asian and East European countries as colonization was established in non-western countries. On the other hand, the proponent of post-colonial theory of modernity negates the colonial theory as it is being forcibly imposed by the western colonizers upon the non-western people. But all are the theories of the modernity: pro-western, post-colonial, post-modernist and environmental approach are the expressions of their ideological structures but have the limitations within the structure. The article identified all the theories of modernity failed to suggest a realistic solution to the global problems.

Published in	Advances in Sciences and Humanities (Volume 8, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ash.20220801.12
Page(s)	5-11
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Modernity, Theories, Western Europe, U.S., Post Modernity, Criticism

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