Full Description
This volume contributes to Roland Robertson's (1938-2022) thinking on the impact of civilizational traditions on contemporary global relations. It also includes chapters by Robertsonian scholars on the social implications of intercivilizational encounters. Through theoretical discussions and ethnographic documentation, the volume highlights the importance of human needs and aspirations at the center of civilizational analyses. It offers an original methodology to formulate intercivilizational principles of moral order and a related intercivilizational imaginary. Readers will find in this volume a much-needed strategy to transform contemporary civilizational conflicts and manipulations into intercivilizational undertakings in reciprocal understanding, learning, and cooperation. This volume includes contributions from noted globalization scholars and is a must-read for those interested in macro-perspectives on globalization and global processes.
Contents
Introduction: On the Humanistic and Critical Perspective of Robertson's Civilizational Analysis.- Part I: Civilizational Analysis.- The Uses and Abuses of Civilizational Analysis: Bringing an Ontological Dialogue into Contention.- Civilizational Analysis, Legal Cultures, and Divergent Outcomes.- Globalization, Civilization and the Third Research Program of Multiple Modernities.- Part II: The Study of Inter civilizational Processes.- From Inter-civilizational Encounters to Global Modernity: The Journey of the Concept of Inter-civilizational Interaction.- On Translations Between Civilizational Worlds: Travelling with Roland Robertson Between Inter-civilizational Encounters and Civilizing Processes.- The Crossroads of Inter-civilizational encounters: Diasporas and Exilic Experiences.- Part III: Case Studies of Inter civilizational Processes.- Globalization and Inter-civilizational Analysis: Orthodox Christianity in a World-Historical Perspective.- "Glocal" and Inter-civilizational: Roland Robertson and China's Globalization Studies and Practice.- On the Value of Studying Another Form of Civilization: Roland Robertson, Japan, and Glocalization.- Comparative Intra - Asian Civilizational Approach: Conceptualizing Global Asia.- Part IV: On Inter civilizational Analysis.- Robertson's Prospective Embracement of Inter-civilizational Analysis: Notes from a Correspondence with Theoretical Significance.- Glocalizing Time and Space: Inercivilizational Encounters and Global Consciousness in the Era of "Deglobalization".- Cultural and Civilizational Values of Dialogue in the Modern World.- Roland Robertson on Modernities, Glocalization and Populism: Cautionary Words on the Inter-civilizational Paradigm.- Toward the Construction of a Moral Order: An Inter-civilizational Framework for Civilizational Aanalysis.
