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Introduction -- Identity: the self-respecting self -- Practice: moral competence -- Distinction: class, gender and moral standing -- Performance -- Humanity and the discourse of respectability: mother, family and civilization -- Power -- What happened to respectability?

"Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships. Expanding social inequality, the use of social media and the rise of mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression are manifestations of this shift in our civilization. Our Battle for the Human Spirit is a comprehensive probe into what is happening to human life in the beginning of the 21st century. It explores how culture, experience, and symbolization have been replaced by scientific, discipline-based, approaches. Willem H. Vanderburg argues that these approaches are inadequate in understanding the complexity of human lives and societies. In order to transcend these limits, Vanderburg calls for the reintegration of culture and symbolization into our daily lives."--

The author analyzes the book "Towards the New Civilization (articles on spiritual and ecological philosophy)" written by Andrey Ivanov, Irina Fotieva and Mikhail Shishin. The reviewer believes that the main advantage of the book is the constructive program of transformation of modern civilization along with clearly defined strategies and ways of major reconstruction of economic, political, social and cultural existence. The philosophers emphasize the main "sins" of modern civilization: consumerist attitude towards nature, commercialization of culture, education and art, transformation of democracy into the absolute power of minority, ignorance peculiar to electoral majority in making strategically important decisions, devaluation of liberty, equality and fraternity, denial of the fact that the world is organized around the axis of moral principles and is rotating around it. The philosophers regard these symptoms as the confirmation of the deep crisis of the modern civilization built on production and consumption. The scientists believe that the constructive transformation of human existence is possible provided that spiritual and ecological values are set as the priorities. Afterwards "green economy", "state of truth" and the new Eurasian space as the emitter of social and cultural novations shall emerge.DOI 10.14258/izvasu(2015)3.1-40 ; В публикации рассматриваются идеи новой книги сибирских философов А.В. Иванова, И.В. Фотиевой, М.Ю. Шишина «На путях к новой цивилизации (очерки духовно-экологического мировоззрения)». Автор отмечает в качестве основной ценности данного издания разработку конструктивной программы трансформации современного цивилизационного бытия, четко прописанные стратегии и способы коренной перестройки экономического, политического, социального и культурного существования. Философы констатируют основные «грехи» современной цивилизации: потребительское отношение к природе, коммерциализация культуры, искусства, образования, вырождение демократии в диктат меньшинства над большинством, некомпетентность электорального большинства при принятии стратегически важных решений, фактическая дезавуация ценностей свободы, равенства и братства, отказ от признания упорядоченности мира и стержневой роли моральных принципов в этом порядке. Все это является, по их мнению, маркерами глобального кризиса техногенно-потребительской цивилизации. Мировоззренческой основой конструктивной трансформации бытия, по убеждению авторов рассматриваемой монографии, должно стать утверждение приоритета духовных и экологических ценностей. На этой базе в результате трансформации действительности должны возникнуть «зеленая экономика», «государство правды» и новый излучатель глобальных социокультурных новаций - новое евразийское пространство.DOI 10.14258/izvasu(2015)3.1-40

Статья посвящена рассмотрению взаимной вложенности в процесс глобализации процессов взаимодействия региональных цивилизаций. ; The article considers the mutual nesting in the globalization process of the interaction of regional civilizations.

Religions, especially Abrahamic religions, are having a great role in building human civilization in the world. History recorded that some of the greatest wonders of the world, such as pyramid in Egypt, Borobudur Temple in Indonesia, and some enormous buildings in Greece have been built under the spirit of religion. since the great role of religions nowadays religion is always attached to actual phenomena in the framework of changes in the world. This article is trying to understand religion without the border of language and culture that is local and particularistic. Abrahamic religions normatively and theologically do not share many differences. However, pragmatically and historically their differences are the big problems of the world. Most of the bloody wars that happened in some parts of the world lately are fueled by religious disagreements. Finally, pragmatically the writer explains the role of religion in the development of great civilizations in the world, including the role of religion in the democratization of Indonesia. For it, to be a democratic state, pluralism and inclusivism in understanding religion should be the heart of Indonesian society.

Prologue: Civilizing processes -- "American civilization" -- "Fellow Americans" and outsiders -- American manners under scrutiny -- American aristocracies -- The market society -- Violence and aggressiveness -- And wilderness is paradise enow : from settlements to independence -- But westward, look, the land is bright : from frontier to empire -- Integration struggles -- The curse of the American dream -- Involvement, detachment and American religiosity -- America and humanity as a whole

Civilization; Christianity; relations; Islam; history; 3rd-9th centuries

Dialogue; religious aspects; East and West; civilization, Arab

Turkish civilization; Turkey; history and criticism; philosophical study

"The very ubiquity of race and racial discussions encourages the general public to accept the power it exerts as natural and to allow the process by which it has assumed such authority to remain unquestioned. In this study, Denise McCoskey explains the position of race today by unveiling its relation to structures of thought and practice in classical antiquity. This study thus attempts both to account for the role of race in the classical world and also to trace the intricate ways Greek and Roman racial ideologies continue to resonate in modern life. McCoskey uncovers the assorted frameworks that organized and classified human diversity more fundamentally in antiquity. Along the way, she highlights the noteworthy intersections of race with other important social structures, such as gender and class. Underlining the role of race in shaping the ancient world, she ultimately turns to the influence of ancient racial formation on the modern world as well, an influence mediated by the receptions and appropriations of classical antiquity, borrowings that serve to shore up modernity and its continuing, albeit complex, juxtapositions of past and present. In this deft study, McCoskey provides a touchstone for thinking more critically about race's many sites of operation in both ancient and modern eras."--Publisher's description

Die Geschichte einer Klimakatastrophe: Wir schreiben das Jahr 2393. Die Welt ist nicht wiederzuerkennen. Über Jahrzehnte ignorierte Warnungen haben Temperatur und Meeresspiegel weiter ansteigen lassen, Holland, Bangladesch und New York sind von der Landkarte verschwunden. Der ungebremste Klimawandel gipfelte im Großen Kollaps des Jahres 2093, als der Zusammenbruch des westantarktischen Eisschilds die Welt ins Chaos stürzte.