Full Description
Civilization, Modernity, and Critique provides the first comprehensive, cutting-edge engagement with the work of one of the most foundational figures in civilizational analysis: Jóhann P. Árnason. In order to do justice to Árnason's seminal and wide-ranging contributions to sociology, social theory and history, it brings together distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical contexts. Through a critical, interdisciplinary dialogue, it offers an enrichment and expansion of the methodological, theoretical, and applicative scope of civilizational analysis, by addressing some of the most complex and pressing problems of contemporary global society. A unique and timely contribution to the ongoing task of advancing the project of a critical theory of society, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in historical sociology, critical theory and civilizational analysis.
Contents
1 Axel Honneth (Columbia University) - Preface. 2 Ľubomír Dunaj (University of Vienna) - Introduction. QUESTIONS OF THEORY AND METHODOLOGY. 3 Suzi Adams (Flinders University, Adelaide) - The Being of the Political and Instituting Doing in Question: Reflections on Jóhann P. Árnason's Thought. 4 Jiří Šubrt (Charles University in Prague) - Long-term Developmental Processes as an Unintended Consequence of Human Action: Some Theoretical and Methodological Questions of Historical Sociology. 5 Saïd Amir Arjomand (Stony Brook University) - World Regions and the Unpacking of Multiple Modernities: A Pluralistic View of Global Sociological Theory. RE-THINKING THE CONCEPT OF MODERNITY/IES THROUGH THE LENS OF CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS. 6 Peter Wagner (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Study [ICREA]; University of Barcelona; University of Central Asia) - Ways Out of the Modern Labyrinth: Normative Expectations and Subsequent Social Change. 7 Wolfgang Knöbl (Hamburg Institute for Social Research) - Politics and the Social Imaginary: The Problem of the State - and the Problem of Modernity. 8 Kurt C.M. Mertel (American University of Sharjah) - Situating Jóhann P. Árnason's Civilizational Analysis within Left-Heideggerianism. MODERNITY IN THE PLURAL: CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THE AXIAL AGE DEBATE. 9 Hans Schelkshorn (University of Vienna) - The Axial Age and Multiple Modernities: Philosophical reflections on the universal claims of European civilization. 10 Hans-Herbert Kögler (University of North Florida) - Traditions of Transcendence. A Hermeneutic Appropriation of the Axial Age Discourse. 11 Christoph Kleine (Leipzig University) and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Leipzig University) - A Secularity Sui Generis? On the Historical Development of Conceptual Distinctions and Institutional Differentiations in Japan. MAKING THEORY CONTEXTUAL THROUGH CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS: PLACE, POLITICS, SITUATEDNES. 12 Armando Salvatore (McGill University) and Kieko Obuse (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) - Overwriting the Orient and the Islamosphere: Religio-Civilizational Imaginaries Via East-West Entanglements. 13 Yulia Prozorova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg) - Religious-Political Problematic in Civilizational Analysis: Reflections on Russia's Trajectory. 14 Jeremy Smith (Federation University Australia) - Regionality and Civilizations in the Americas: Considerations on Civilizational Analysis in the Context of American Modernities. JÓHANN P. ÁRNASON'S REPLIES. 15 Jóhann P. Árnason (La Trobe University) - Replies to criticisms and suggestions
