Historical concepts and historians’ ideas of modernity each show varied ways of how, when, where and why the period that is now labeled “Modernity” came to be, with some, especially historical writings pre-1990s, holding the more Eurocentric outlook that modernity can be characterised as a ‘product of Europe’. Historians such as Prasenjit Duara, Michael Adas, Antoine-Nicolas de Condorcet, C. Delisle Burns and Edward B. Taylor hold this idea of modernity coming from Europe through means such as industrialisation, capitalism, urbanisation, nationhood and secularisation with these then spreading to other cultures and countries directly from occidental nations – as Burns states when suggesting that ‘the modern…is Western in origin’ . However the
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Suggesting that modernity is a product of Europe alone, paying no attention to the hundreds of other nations and cultures contemporary to the suggestion of when Europe’s modernity came to be and that were incomparable to the West, would be wholly incorrect and borders on historical ignorance based on fallacies of Eurocentricity. Even when several other nations and cultures are added to the equation to make up modernity through the concept of global modernities, there are still several issues and flaws that are only addressed by the last historical concept of modernity discussed, that of multiple modernities. The proposition of multiple modernities existing individually and often apart from one and other allows for a new individuality and uniqueness of modernity that cannot be found in the other two flawed arguments; it stops a single necessary definition of modernity being created and is clearly superior to the other arguments due to this, meaning that modernity cannot be seen as solely a product of Europe, but instead a interplay of many modernities that exist coherently yet separately, with some not existing yet at
Suggesting that modernity is a product of Europe alone, paying no attention to the hundreds of other nations and cultures contemporary to the suggestion of when Europe’s modernity came to be and that were incomparable to the West, would be wholly incorrect and borders on historical ignorance based on fallacies of Eurocentricity. Even when several other nations and cultures are added to the equation to make up modernity through the concept of global modernities, there are still several issues and flaws that are only addressed by the last historical concept of modernity discussed, that of multiple modernities. The proposition of multiple modernities existing individually and often apart from one and other allows for a new individuality and uniqueness of modernity that cannot be found in the other two flawed arguments; it stops a single necessary definition of modernity being created and is clearly superior to the other arguments due to this, meaning that modernity cannot be seen as solely a product of Europe, but instead a interplay of many modernities that exist coherently yet separately, with some not existing yet at