Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions

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Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Rediscovery of Civilizations 1.1 Civilizational claims and counter-claims 1.2 Legacies and trajectories 1.3 Civilization and modernity 1.4 Rethinking basic concepts 2. Classical Sources 2.1 Durkheim and Mauss: The sociological concept of civilization 2.2 Max Weber: The comparative history of civilizations 2.3 From Spengler to Borkenau: Civilizational cycles and transitions 3. Patterns and Processes 3.1 Exits and openings 3.2 Benjamin Nelson: Civilizational contents and intercivilizational encounters 3.3 S.N. Eisenstadt: Civilizational breakthroughs and dynamics 3.4 Jaroslav Kreji: Civilizations as paradigms of the human condition 4. Meaning, Power and Wealth: Changing Constellations 4.1 Domains and dimensions of socio-cultural analysis 4.2 Theorizing civilizations 4.3 Configurations of meaning, I: Cultural articulations of the world 4.4 Configurations of meaning, II: Religious traditions and civilizational trajectories 4.5 Institutional patterns, I: Politics and ideology 4.6 Institutional patterns, II: The historical forms of economic life 4.7 Culture, institution and organization: The case of science 4.8 Intercivilizational encounters 4.9 Civilizational groupings 4.10 Traditions in transformation 4.11 Civilizations and regions

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