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Civilization, modernity, and critique : engaging Jóhann P. Árnason's macro-social theory / edited by Ľubomír Dunaj, Jeremy C.A. Smith and Kurt C.M. Mertel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in social and political thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Árnason, Jóhann Páll, 1940-.
- Árnason, Jóhann Páll.
- Historical sociology.
- Comparative civilization.
- Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Sociology--Philosophy.
- Sociology.
- Sociologists--Germany.
- Sociologists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 263 pages).
- Other Title:
- Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason's macro-social theory
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- =ubom̕r Dunaj (University of Vienna) =ubom̕r Dunaj is University Assistant at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna and Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is associated editor of Pragmatism Today and published his work in Human Affairs, Berlin Journal of Critical Theory and Polylog. Zeitschrift f|r interkulturelles Philosophieren. Jeremy C.A. Smith (Federation University Australia) Jeremy Smith is in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community at Federation University. He is author of three research monographs, five coedited books, and articles in European Journal of Social Theory, Current Sociology, Critical Horizons, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Thesis Eleven, Atlantic Studies and Political Power and Social Theory. He is also a Managing Editor of the International Journal of Social Imaginaries (Brill). Kurt C.M. Mertel (American University of Sharjah) Kurt C.M. Mertel is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Sharjah. He is the co-editor of three books in critical social theory and his work appears in the European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Social Criticism and Critical Horizons, among others.
- Contents:
- Preface / Axel Honneth
- Introduction / Ľubomír Duna
- The being of the political and instituting doing in question : reflections on Johann P. Árnason's Thought / Suzi Adams
- Long-term developmental processes as an unintended consequence of human action : some theoretical and methodological questions of historical sociology / Jiří Šubrt
- World regions and the unpacking of multiple modernities : a pluralistic view of global sociological theory / Saïd Amir Arjomand
- Ways out of the modern labyrinth : normative expectations and subsequent social change / Peter Wagner
- Politics and the social imaginary : the problem of the state
- and the problem of modernity / Wolfgang Knöbl
- Situating Johann P. Árnason's civilizational analysis within left-Heideggerianism / Kurt C.M. Mertel
- The axial age and multiple modernities philosophical reflections on the universal claims of European civilization / Hans Schelkshorn
- Traditions of transcendence. A hermeneutic appropriation of the axial age discourse / Hans-Herbert Kögler
- A secularity sui generis? On the historical development of conceptual distinctions and institutional differentiations in Japan / Christoph Kleine, Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
- Overwriting the Orient and the Islamosphere : religio-civilizational imaginaries via East-West entanglements / Armando Salvatore, Kieko Obuse
- Religious-political problematic in civilizational analysis : reflections on the Russia's trajectory / Yulia Prozorova
- Regionality and civilizations in the Americas : considerations on civilizational analysis in the context of American modernities / Jeremy Smith
- Replies to criticisms and suggestions / Johann P. Árnason.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Civilization, modernity, and critique
- ISBN:
- 9781003275046
- 1003275044
- 9781000881516
- 1000881512
- 9781000881462
- 1000881466
- Publisher Number:
- 40031829367
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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