ISBN:
9781412931342
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
SAGE Studies in International Sociology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Rethinking Civilizational Analysis
DDC:
306/.01
Keywords:
Civilization Philosophy
;
Civilization - Philosophy
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
'At last, a volume on civilization that truly reflects the complexity of multiple civilizations. The wealth of contributions Arjomand and Tiryakian have assembled demonstrates the value of an old concept for understanding the awful dilemmas confronting human kind in the global age. Its thoroughgoing renewal here establishes this book as the essential benchmark for future scholars of civilization' - Martin Albrow, Founding Editor of International Sociology and author of The Global Age - winner of the European Amalfi Prize, 1997 'In our tension filled world, many are heralding, and others fearing, a"clash of civilizations." The contributors to this volume provides a healthy and persuasive argument about why this clash need not, and certainly should not, take place. They do so, moreover, not by rejecting the concept of civilization, but by developing a less primordial, homogenous, and essentialist concept of it. An important collection that provides illumination in this sometimes frighteningly dark time' - Jeffrey Alexander, Professor and Chair of Sociology at Yale University 'The concept of civilization may well replace the notions of globalization and identity as the core component in the vocabulary of 21st century sociology. The authors contribute a great deal to the clarification of fashionable controversies around the "clash of civilizations" and "multiculturalism". They go a long way toward purging the concept of civilization of its ideological overtones, and they suceed admirably in turning it into powerful analytic tool of an emerging fleld of macrosociology, known already as civilizational analysis' - Piotr Sztompka, President, International Sociological Association Although the concept of 'civilization' has deep roots in the social sciences, there is an urgent need to re-think it for contemporary times. This book points to an exhaustion in
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: The Intellectual Background -- Chapter 1 - Civilization in a Historical and Global Perspective -- Chapter 2 - Civilizational Forms -- Part II: Theoretical Essays -- Chapter 3 - Civilizational Analysis: Renovating the Sociological Tradition -- Chapter 4 - The Civilizational Dimension of Modernity: Modernity as a Distinct Civilization -- Chapter 5 - Note on the Concept of an Axial Turning in Human History -- Chapter 6 - Global Civilization and Local Cultures: A Crude Look at the Whole -- Chapter 7 - Civilization and its Sources -- Chapter 8 - Civilizational Patterns and Civilizing Processes -- Chapter 9 - Rationalization, Transformations of Consciousness and Intercivilizational Encounters: Reflections on Benjamin Nelson's Sociology of Civilizations -- Chapter 10 - Civilizations as Zones of Prestige and Social Contact -- Part III: Historical and Comparative Essays -- Chapter 11 - Chinese Encounters with Other Civilizations -- Chapter 12 - Perso-Indian Statecraft, Greek Political Science and Muslim Idea of Government -- Chapter 13 - The Comparison of Civilizations: Louis Dumont on India and the West -- Chapter 14 - Confessions of a Eurocentric -- Part IV: Critical Essays -- Chapter 15 - From Indigenous Civilization to Indigenous Modernities: Sacred narratives, Terrra Nullius and an Australian Bestiarium -- Chapter 16 - A Clash of Civilizations or of Paradigms? Theorizing Progress and Social Change -- Chapter 17 - The Clash of Civilizations: A Model of Historical Development? -- Chapter 18 - For the Last Time: Civilizations -- Index.
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