On Arif Dirlik’s Theory Of Global Modernity

Arif Dirlik has a remarkable achievement. The middle of the 20 th century has been a major changes in the contemporary capitalist society.Because of the development of science and technology, which greatly improved productivity.Capitalism is developing rapidly.Significant changes in the contemporary capitalist society. on a global scale,the emergence of the multinational company has capital, the globalization of production and trade level has been greatly increased.In the process of globalization of the world contact more and more closely.The development of science and technology makes people constantly expanding in the field of knowledge.Global economic, political and cultural achieve to the degree of homogeneity. Dirlik’s Global Modernity is a descriptive concept. Because it is widely argued for the future of modernity, modernity break from the past.But the contemporary society is built by the colonial history.So history is an integral part of modernity. Dirlik think localization is full of future.Globalization does not apply to all places. In order to be able to exist in places it appeard with different ways in different places.In the context of globalization,the new society and ideology makes people started for localization.Although the plight of localization has always been and remained.It is also used to cover up the oppression and narrow.But Dirlik is very confident about it.Currently the local issue is that In the time of globalization. It is different from the traditional local.Its basic contradictions can be resolved. Dirlik in a dialectic view of history to analyze the local of globalisation.He thinks that the contemporary regional consciousness developed in the context of global capitalism.It produces in the development and changes in the category of social and cultural attitude.At the same time the geopolitical also provides a critical Angle. Between Local both global iare the dialectical relationship. They are interdependent and opposition to each other.It is important to attention to the local.Because the local can create new universalism from different interest. Culture creation from the higher levels to the grass roots is very difficult to produce newuniversalism.As the traditional values of European modernity has not been abandoned.They adapt in a variety of deformation tothe needs of now. In general, it is necessary to distinguish between local global localization and globalization.They are two aspects of the process of global capitalism. Dirlik’s critical localism against capitalist hegemony provides enlightenment for us. Because the difference of eastern and western ideology makes Dirlik’s understanding of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" is different from us.So he is on the problems of reform and opening up is unfair. In the post-colonial criticism he is divorced from the context of capitalism.He too much emphasis on the role of culture.He makes the postcolonial theory has not been effective application.The attention for China and criticism of the Confucian capitalism provides for us the theoretical reference to globalization.o Dirlik’s global modernization theory has certain theoretical value and practical significance.