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This book examines the role of civilizations in the context of the existing and possible world orders from a cross-cultural perspective. Seeking to clarify the meaning of such complex and contested notions as "civilization," "order," and "world order," it takes into account political, economic, cultural, and philosophical dimensions of social life.

part I The Old World -- chapter 1 Totalitarianism and Civilization -- chapter 2 Ideology -- chapter 3 The Metamorphoses of Totalitarianism -- chapter 4 The State and Fate of Europe -- part II II e New World -- chapter 5 America Comes of Age -- chapter 6 The Destruction of American Civilization -- part III III e ird World -- chapter 7 East and West -- chapter 8 China -- chapter 9 Islam -- chapter 10 India.

Rethinking Civilization offers an alternative view of human civilization in a globalizing age. Majid Tehranian analyses the transition from nomadic, to agrarian, commercial, industrial, and digital civilizations and argues that the growing gaps among the five major civilizations have led to terror operating as a form of global communication. This new book explores the uneven pace of development of human societies, particularly in the last two centuries, and argues that this is leading to a global civil war. Taking a long-term historical perspective, and developing a model that explains how emp.

No one would, probably, doubt that Muslim civilization is facing a serious crisis since the 18th century. It first resulted in political chaos and ultimately colonization of Muslim lands by Western powers. Later, Muslim civilization faced serious cultural and intellectual onslaught from the West which intensified and deepened the crisis. Though the period of Western colonization ostensibly came to an end in the middle of the 20th century, Muslim lands did not come out of the crisis. Despite some sincere efforts for Islamic revivalism, Muslim civilization has failed to respond to the modern crisis, particularly 9/11 incident has exposed the vulnerability of the Muslim world to Western political agenda, and its failure to respond effectively to Western civilizational challenges. The scholars are divided as to the cause of this crisis of the Muslim world and consequently, as to the measures to remedy the problem.Abdur Rehman Ibn Khaldun, a 13th century Muslim historian and intellectual, emerged at a time when the Muslim states in the Maghreb (North Africa) and Muslim Spain were passing through a phase of decline. His critical thoughts on the society (Al-Imran) and particularly his concept of social solidarity (Al-asabiyah), as propounded in his magnum opus, Maqaddimah (Prolegomena to History), can provide important insights into the present crisis of the Muslim Civilization. The present paper seeks to understand and explain this crisis with the help of the social analysis and critical ideas of Ibn Khaldun.

Invocation: Dionysos, how it all began : a ritual invocation for the 2012 Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche conference / Craig San Roque -- 1. The hero who would not die : warrior and goddess in Ancient Greek and modern men / Virginia Beane Rutter -- 2. Beauty and the psychoanalytic enterprise : reflections on a rarely acknowledged dimension of the healing process / Donald Kalsched -- 3. Introduction to the Kore Story/Persephone's Dong / Craig San Roque -- 4. Death and necessity at the threshold of new life / Richard Trousdell -- 5. How Hermes and Apollo came to love each other in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes : imagination and form in Ancient Greece and modern psyche / Jules Cashford -- 6. Penelope scapes / Melina Centomani Rutter -- 7. Dreaming in place : Santorini, Greece / Robin van Loben Sels -- Closing: travelling Ariadne : a romance / Craig San Roque.

The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European imperialism was its motor, while its character derived from the interactions between peoples indigenous to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Much of the everyday workings of this oceanic system took place in urban settings. By sustaining the connections between these disparate regions, cities and towns became essential to the transformations that occurred in this early modern era. This Element, traces the emergence of the Atlantic city as a site of contact, an agent of colonization, a central node in networks of exchange, and an arena of political contestation. Cities of the Atlantic World operated at the juncture of many of the core processes in a global history of capitalism and of rising social and racial inequality. A source of analogous experiences of division as well as unity, they helped shape the Atlantic world as a coherent geography of analysis.