Abstract
The article begins with the assumption that modernity is undergoing a profound change. The focus is on the structural transfor- mation of two typical modern institutional regimes: the academic disci- pline and the territorial nation-state. Their demise as the predominant institutional forms in the realms of science and politics signals the end of the modern project—or at least the need for its profound redefini- tion. It is suggested that such a redefinition entails a radical conceptual shift in the social sciences and that the meta-theoretical expression of this shift can be designated as 'dialogical pluralism'. At a theoretical level, both modernization theories and the recent program of 'multiple modernities' are rejected. A plural modernity, with several distinct vari- eties, seems a more promising perspective.
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