Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities / / S. N. Eisenstadt

• Autore: Eisenstadt S. N (Shmuel Noah), <1923-2010.>
• Pubblicazione: Leiden : , : BRILL, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (2 volumes, 1074 pages)
• Disciplina: 909.82
• Soggetto topico: Civilization, Modern - 20th century; Civilization, Modern - 1950-; Social change
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; List of Permissions; 1. Introduction: Comparative Studies and Sociological Theory-From Comparative Studies to Civilizational Analysis: Autobiographical Notes; 2. The Civilizational Dimension in Sociological Analysis; 3. Social division of labor, construction of centers and institutional dynamics: A reassessment of the structural-evolutionary perspective; 4. Cultural Programs, the Construction of Collective Identities and the Continual Reconstruction of Primordiality; 5. Some Observations on the Dynamics of Traditions ; 6. Comparative Liminality. Liminality and Dynamics of Civilizations; 7. The Axial Age: The emergence of transcendental visions and the rise of clerics; 8. Cultural traditions and political dynamics: the origins and modes of ideological politics; 9. Transcendental vision, center formation and the role of intellectuals; 10. Utopias and Dynamics of Civilizations: Some concluding observations; 11. This-worldly transcendentalism and the structuring of the world: Weber's ""Religion of China"" and the Format of Chinese History and Civilization ; 12. Some Observations on the transformation of Confucianism (and Buddhism) in Japan; 13. A Short Comparative Excurse on the (Theravada) Buddhist Civilizational Format and Historical Experience; 14. Cultural Traditions, Conceptions of Sovereignty and State Formations in India and Europe; 15. The Crystallization of Christian Civilizations in Europe; 16. The Jewish Historical Experience in the Framework of Comparative Universal History; 17. Civil Society, Public Sphere, the Myth of Oriental Despotism and Political Dynamic in Islamic Societies ; 18. Japan and the multiplicity of cultural programmes of modernity; 19. Some Comparative Indications about the Dynamics of Historical Axial and non-Axial Civilizations; 20. The Civilizational Dimension of Modernity: Modernity as a Distinct Civilization; 21. Multiple Modernities in an Age of Globalization; 22. Multiple Modernities; 23. Barbarism and Modernity: the Destructive Components of Modernity; 24. Origins of the West. The origins of the West in recent Macrosociological Theory. The Protestant Ethic Reconsidered ; 25. Frameworks of the Great Revolutions: Culture, Social Structure, History and Human Agency; 26. The Sectarian Origin of Modernity; 27. The Breakdown and Transformation of Communist Regimes; 28. The First Multiple Modernities: The civilization of the Americas; 29. Mirror Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity; 30. Israeli Politics and the Jewish Political Tradition: Principled Political Anarchism and the Rule of the Court; 31. The Puzzle of Indian Democracy; 32. Center Formation and Protest Movements in Europe and the U.S.A.: Comparative Perspective; 33. The Structuring of Social Protest in Modern Societies: The Limits and Direction of Convergence
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published over the past 20 years, the 38 papers collected in this two-volume set represent an overview of the core concerns of Eisenstadt (emeritus, sociology, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) during this period axial civilizations (what Max Weber called the ""world religions"") and modernities.
• Titolo autorizzato: Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities
• ISBN: 1-4175-3894-5; 90-474-0207-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826884003321
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