We now live, as Eisenstadt said, in a world of continuously shifting hegemonies. A new historical dynamics has been set in motion in recent times that has fundamentally altered the relationship between what formerly were the centres and their peripheries. But never before in modern times has the impact of this critique been so profound as to lead to a real possibility in the transformation of the social and political imaginary of large numbers of people throughout the world. They have been viewed with suspicion and rejected, rightly or wrongly, in the past. Ideas and practices associated with the modern West have been subjected to critique for long, both from within the West and outside it. 1The current conjuncture in the world is witness to a dramatic, almost irreversible breakdown of the hegemony of mainstream intellectual traditions of the West.
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