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Author: Jeremy Smith Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781472588937 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 192
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It is said that when an American reporter asked Gandhi what he thought of Western civilisation, he responded: 'It would be a nice idea'.In this book Jeremy Smith interrogates debates on Civilizational Analysis both in its classical iteration, with discussions of Toynbee and Spengler, to its post Cold war iterations in the work of Huntington and Eisenstadt, to the third generation of scholars now engaging with these debates, notably Johann Arnason .The book offers a a state of the art reflection on, and extension of, Civilizational Analysis for the Global Age. It is distinctive in its inclusion of non-Western traditions, and critiques including debates from The Arab world, Japan and Latin America. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of postcolonial theory, global sociology and anthropology.
Author: Jeremy Smith Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781472588937 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 192
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It is said that when an American reporter asked Gandhi what he thought of Western civilisation, he responded: 'It would be a nice idea'.In this book Jeremy Smith interrogates debates on Civilizational Analysis both in its classical iteration, with discussions of Toynbee and Spengler, to its post Cold war iterations in the work of Huntington and Eisenstadt, to the third generation of scholars now engaging with these debates, notably Johann Arnason .The book offers a a state of the art reflection on, and extension of, Civilizational Analysis for the Global Age. It is distinctive in its inclusion of non-Western traditions, and critiques including debates from The Arab world, Japan and Latin America. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of postcolonial theory, global sociology and anthropology.
Author: Jeremy C. A. Smith Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526105306 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 291
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense engagement of societies, cultures, empires and civilisations in human history. Building on Castoriadis’s theory of social imaginaries, it argues that civilisations are best understood as the products of routine contacts and connections carried out by anonymous actors over the course of long periods of time. It illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial power.
Author: Joseph T. Stuart Publisher: ISBN: 9781935306702 Category : Languages : en Pages : 258
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Six classroom-tested debates are featured in this innovative sourcebook. Built on primary documents, each debate asks students to step into the shoes of historical characters and argue for a position. As author Joseph T. Stuart says in the Introduction, "Debates have proven to be among the most successful tools in my experience as an instructor to encourage students to work with primary sources." The book includes 3 debates from the pre-1500 period and 3 from the post-1500 period, plus a debate rubric, and post-debate questions and activities. Also included are the full texts of 40 primary sources utilized during the debate process. This sourcebook is suitable for high school and college courses in World Civilization/History and Western Civilization.
Author: Jeremy Smith Publisher: ISBN: 9781526105288 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 205
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Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense engagement of societies, cultures, empires and civilisations in human history. Building on Castoriadis's theory of social imaginaries, it argues that civilisations are best understood as the products of routine contacts and connections carried out by anonymous actors over the course of long periods of time. It illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial power.
Author: Artur Bogner Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030803791 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 296
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In 1984, the celebrated sociologist and historian Norbert Elias convened a major conference on ‘Civilisations and civilising processes’ at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of Bielefeld). Participants included the most distinguished and influential scholars in historical sociology and world history. This book will make available, for the first time in one place, the papers presented by the speakers and, even more interestingly, the transcripts of discussions at the symposium. This conference brought together eminent and internationally reputed scholars of macro-history and historical sociology including Johann P. Arnason, Elias, Hans-Dieter Evers, Johan Goudsblom, Keith Hopkins, William H. McNeill, and Immanuel Wallerstein. This highly informative encounter between various leading scholars of humanity’s global social history has never before been published, although it was completely recorded on paper and in tape recordings. Its publication in one volume should be an important event for all students of the long-term structural transformations of humanity.
Author: James Hoge Jr F Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations ISBN: 0876094361 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 135
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In 1993, Samuel P. Huntington boldly asserted in the pages of Foreign Affairs, the preeminent magazine on foreign policy and international relations, that world politics was entering a new phase, one in which cultural differences in religion, history, language, and tradition were replacing Cold War tensions and would soon become the world's fundamental points of conflict.Huntington's striking thesis elicited both criticism and praise from the media and political experts around the world. More than a decade later, "The Clash of Civilizations?" continues to be a touchstone in global politics as writers passionately debate its merits and propose countertheories of their own.This collection presents the original, seminal essay followed by critical responses published in Foreign Affairs, including the author's reply to his critics and contemporary additions to the enduring question of how to understand world conflict.
Author: Samuel P. Huntington Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416561242 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 555
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The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in today’s geopolitical climate—with a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Since its initial publication in 1996, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. Samuel Huntington explains how clashes between civilizations pose the greatest threat to world peace, but also how an international order based on civilizations is the best safeguard against war. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order explains how the population explosion in Muslim countries and the economic rise of East Asia have changed global politics. These developments challenge Western dominance, promote opposition to supposedly “universal” Western ideals, and intensify inter-civilization conflict over such issues as nuclear proliferation, immigration, human rights, and democracy. In his incisive analysis, Huntington offers a strategy for the West to preserve its unique culture and emphasizes the need for people everywhere to learn to coexist in a complex, multipolar, multi-civilizational world.
Author: Lütfi Sunar Publisher: Works ISBN: 9780199466887 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 0
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Since its birth as a concept, civilization has been defined by an encounter with the 'other'. Barbarism, the ever-ready counter concept, has provided civilization with its raison d'etre-that of exerting violence upon other societies to 'civilize' them. Enlightenment thinkers defined civilization as an opponent of nature, while science and technology, tools with which nature was to be conquered, became one of the basic indicators of development. Thus was formed the unbroken tie between civilization and science. In the Muslim world, civilization became a synonym for modernization, a lifestyle imposed by the colonialists and their local counterparts. However, as this volume reveals, the resistance to and reception of Western modernity by non-Western societies is not homogenous, nor is the 'othering' unidirectional. If the Orientalist discourse portrayed the Islamic East as an exotic, seductive, and untamed 'other', a corresponding Occidentalism also stereotyped the West as the soulless, mechanistic 'other' to Islam. Challenging the embedded prejudices within social theory, Debates on Civilization in the Muslim World questions the Eurocentric understanding of civilization and also explores the themes of modernization, globalization, and the future of the civilization debate.
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