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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenstadt, S. N. (Shmuel Noah), 1923-2010.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern--20th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Civilization, Modern--1950-.

Social change.

Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.

Comparative civilization.

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Comparative civilizations & multiple modernities

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Comparative Studies and Sociological Theory

From Comparative Studies to Civilizational Analysis: Autobiographical Notes 1

I. Theoretical Approach

2. The Civilizational Dimension in Sociological Analysis 33

3. Social division of labor, construction of centers and institutional dynamics: A reassessment of the structural-evolutionary perspective 57

4. Cultural Programs, the Construction of Collective Identities and the Continual Reconstruction of Primordiality 75

5. Some Observations on the Dynamics of Traditions 135

6. Comparative Liminality. Liminality and Dynamics of Civilizations 167

II. Axial Civilizations

A. General Analysis

7. The Axial Age: The emergence of transcendental visions and the rise of clerics 195

8. Cultural traditions and political dynamics: the origins and modes of ideological politics 219

9. Transcendental vision, center formation and the role of intellectuals 249

10. Utopias and Dynamics of Civilizations: Some concluding observations 265

B. Analyses of Selected Axial Civilizations and of Japan

11. This-worldly transcendentalism and the structuring of the world: Weber's "Religion of China" and the Format of Chinese History and Civilization 281

12. Some Observations on the trnasformation of Confucianism (and Buddhism) in Japan 307

13. A Short Comparative Excurse on the (Theravada) Buddhist Civilizational Format and Historical Experience 319

14. Cultural Traditions, Conceptions of Sovereignty and State Formations in India and Europe 329

15. The Crystallization of Christian Civilizations in Europe 345

16. The Jewish Historical Experience in the Framework of Comparative Universal History 359

17. Civil Society, Public Sphere, the Myth of Oriental Despotism and Political Dynamic in Islamic Societies 399

18. Japan and the multiplicity of cultural programmes of modernity 435

19. Some Comparative Indications about the Dynamics of Historical Axial and non-Axial Civilizations 457

III. Modernity as Civilization

20. The Civilizational Dimension of Modernity: Modernity as a Distinct Civilization 493

21. Multiple Modernities in an Age of Globalization 519

22. Multiple Modernities 535

23. Barbarism and Modernity: the Destructive Components of Modernity 561

IV. The Historical and Civilizational Framework of Western Modernity

24. Origins of the West. The origins of the West in recent Macrosociological Theory. The Protestant Ethic Reconsidered 577

25. Frameworks of the Great Revolutions: Culture, Social Structure, History and Human Agency 613

26. The Sectarian Origin of Modernity 641

V. Multiple Modernities

A. The Classical Age of Modernity

27. The Breakdown and Transformation of Communist Regimes 679

28. The First Multiple Modernities: The civilization of the Americas 701

29. Mirror Image Modernities: Contrasting Religious Premises of Japanese and U.S. Modernity 723

30. Israeli Politics and the Jewish Political Tradition: Principled Political Anarchism and the Rule of the Court 759

31. The Puzzle of Indian Democracy 781

32. Center Formation and Protest Movements in Europe and the U.S.A.: Comparative Perspective 831

33. The Structuring of Social Protest in Modern Societies: The Limits and Direction of Convergence 849

34. Construction of Trust, Collective Identity and the Fragility and Continuity of Democratic Regimes 877

B. The Contemporary Scene

35. The Contemporary Scene: Beyond the Hegemony of the Nation and Revolutionary State Model 911

36. Globalization, civilizational traditions and multiple modernities 925

37. The Jacobin Component of Fundamentalist Movements 937

38. The Reconstruction of Religious Arenas in the Framework of Multiple Modernities 953.

Notes:

"A collection of essays"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004129936

9004125345

9004129928

9789004125346

9789004130197

OCLC:

51726847