Finding non-Western development roots still accepts teleological history’s criteria

Evidence

To argue that there were indigenous roots of modern development in the latter does not in itself interrogate the criteria by which “modern development” is described. That industrialization and modernization are to be seen as global processes that transform all component units differentially does not shift from the idea of teleological history. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1040

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Cooper thread on how ‘secular modernity’ narratives smuggle in teleological Christian timelines; also to Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe which the reader may want to add to the reading list.
• QUESTION: What exactly shifts one off teleological history — Chakrabarty’s method is gestured at but not specified here.