Varieties of Multiple Modernities ― New Research Design

This volume collects new research about multiple modernities and globalization. It shows the new turn of sociological theory in the contemporary scene with respect to multiple modernities, multi-centrism, transglobality, hybridization and multiculturalism, comparative cultures, and explores it as a new area of societal communication.

Gerhard Preyer is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His research fields are: sociological theory and comparative sociology, philosophy of language and mind. He is the editor-in-chief of ProtoSociology: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and author and editor of, among other works,Intention of Practical Thoughts (2011), Donald Davidson’s Philosophy. From Radical Interpretation to Radical Contextualism (2nd edition, 2011), andDonald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental (2012). Michael Sussman is the CEO of Sussman Corporate Security, an international security consultancy based in Canada, Israel and Hong Kong. He previously worked in the House of Commons Canada, the Truman Centre for the Advancement of Peace, the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs, and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Michael has published many articles on international security, counter terrorism, foreign policy strategy, decision making, predictive analysis, and the Middle East. He conducted his graduate work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Interdisciplinary Centre, Herzliya. Michael’s publications, radio and television interviews have been issued in different languages in many countries. He was also the assistant to S.N. Eisenstadt and worked on research on 'multiple modernities’ with him.