There have been many turning points in history. In our time, the end of
the Cold War in 1989, which made globalisation evident, was one such
point. It also entailed a fragmentation. Another turning point of
modernity that still has an imprint on us can be described as the period
from which a continuity has been established for the European episteme,
which, by the same token, has been universalized as western. All other
epistemes were forced to interrupt continuity with their own past if they
wanted to access modernity. Their past counts as "premodern" or
"traditional", and thus belated compared with universalised modernity.
The latter's pattern and that of the modern "political" have spread with
western languages
