Civilization
In: The Salisbury review: a quarterly magazine of conservative thought, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 5
ISSN: 0265-4881
In: The Salisbury review: a quarterly magazine of conservative thought, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 5
ISSN: 0265-4881
In: Peace review: the international quarterly of world peace, Band 7, Heft 3-4, S. 409-417
ISSN: 1040-2659
Human & social progress toward a more perfect state of shared rule & social justice will require vision & resolve, courage & compassion. While this journey will not be easy, those who have been the beneficiaries of abundance in a world of artificial scarcity must begun to do their part by adopting a postmodern enlightenment predicated on several important principles: (1) children come first; (2) distribution, sustainability, & compassion are the cornerstones of enlightened development; (3) tolerance is indivisible; (4) humanity is one; (5) war constitutes the ultimate evasion; (6) security is the freedom from fear; (7) global bodies must directly represent peoples, not states; & (8) voice must be given to the unheard. M. Maguire
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 7, Heft 3-4, S. 409-417
ISSN: 1469-9982
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 85, Heft 1, S. 64-92
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
Autopoietic societies have produced three major images of civilization: the Greco-Roman, the Eurocentric Western, and the Settler Society type. The most important incarnation of the latter to date has been America. This article explores the deep-going differences between American and European ideas of civilization. It examines how the American kind of autopoietic civilization expresses itself in preternaturally distinctive conceptualizations of nature and freedom, life and death, order and chaos, city and ecumene. The article discusses the political and social implications of this.
In: FP, Heft 198
ISSN: 0015-7228
For all the talk of the global "clash of civilizations" -- the theory of inevitable conflict between cultures and religions, coined by a founder of this magazine, Samuel P. Huntington -- the interesting thing about the decade after the September 11 attacks, when so many prognosticators and pundits championed this argument, is just how wrong they got it. The view that Islam in particular is on a collision course with the West thanks to a yawning cultural divide got a second look when the Arab Spring didn't instantly lead to deals for Cairo Disney and Hooters Tunis. But, if anything, shared values are converging across countries and time zones and, yes, across cultures and religions. Granted, not all this convergence is universal. In fact, there's plenty of global convergence that Americans might not feel so comfortable about. Adapted from the source document.
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 155, Heft 1, S. 64-90
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
The article reviews the social theory of Harry Redner with particular reference to his view of the relationship between high literacy (book culture) and civilization. The question is posed whether, alongside book culture, an axial-type metaphysical culture is also key to the definition of civilization.
In: CREATIVITY STUDIES, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 64-81
ISSN: 2345-0487
The concept of civilizations plays an important role in the current scientific literature. Some authors select a particular number of civilizations. For other authors it is an open question how many civilizations exist: the answer depends on the criteria applied. The paper discusses the concept of the borderland civilization that relates to the countries (space) and people (cultural communities living in this space), situated "between" the two "key cultural groupings" (in Samuel Huntington's sense) and inevitably combines some features from both of them. The author argues that, firstly, the population on today's Polish‐Lithuanian‐Belarusian border constitutes a particular borderland civilization where the local identity dominates over national or ethnic identities. Although other identities might be in use here, the population of this borderland region primarily considers itself as "local" where multi‐ethnic, multi‐cultural and multi‐religious communities have existed for centuries. Secondly, the current Belarus itself can be viewed as a case of a borderland subcivilization: throughout its history it has been constantly influenced by Latin (Western) and Byzantine (Eastern) civilizations that resulted in Belarusian cultural pluralism, high level of religious and ethnic tolerance, and local self‐identification of the population. Therefore, there is no "choice" for Belarus to belong to one "pure" civilization: it is destined to exist in the borderland. From this approach, current Belarus is not "civilization outskirts": it is a sub‐civilization with all the attributes such as culture, values, ideas of history, and supra‐national socio‐cultural community of people.
In: Monthly review: an independent socialist magazine, Band 62, Heft 8, S. 1-25
ISSN: 0027-0520
Asserting that an ecological civilization is not just ethical but existential for humanity, focus is on the key characteristics of robust ecosystems, why societies are not implementing ecological approaches, & how strong natural ecosystems can serve as models for an ecological civilization. Attention is given to the ecological concept of metabolism, human metabolic relationships & the notion of metabolic rifts, bee communication, & the role of capitalism in global ecological degradation. D. Edelman
In: Meždunarodnaja analitika: Journal of international analytics, Heft 2, S. 7-23
ISSN: 2541-9633
The article explains the reasons for nomination and traces the dynamics of the contents of the "dialogue of civilizations" and "alliance of civilizations" concepts. The reasons and circumstances that led to the ineffectiveness of attempts at their practical implementation are considered. The corresponding initiatives did not have a genuinely civilizational scale, closing in the framework of two monotheistic religions – Christianity and Islam.The author postulates two sets of problems, around which a possible intercivilizational dialogue is possible -demographic problems and consumption optimization.
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Working paper
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 141
ISSN: 0305-8298
In: The review of politics, Band 3, S. 283-299
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The Journal of social, political and economic studies, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 215-216
ISSN: 0278-839X, 0193-5941
Murphey reviews 'The Clash of Civilizations' by Samuel Huntington.
In: International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 1-14
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In: The Journal of social, political and economic studies, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 509-510
ISSN: 0278-839X, 0193-5941
Jamieson reviews 'The Pivot of Civilization' by Margaret Sanger with an introduction by H. G. Wells.