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Tables of Contents for Civilizations in Dispute
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xii
The Rediscovery of Civilizations
1
65
Civilizational claims and counter-claims
6
7
Legacies and trajectories
13
21
Civilization and modernity
34
17
Rethinking basic concepts
51
15
Classical Sources
66
59
Durkheim and Mauss: The sociological concept of civilization
67
19
Max Weber: The comparative history of civilizations
86
19
From Spengler to Borkenau: Civilizational cycles and transitions
105
20
Patterns and Processes
125
70
Exits and openings
126
13
Benjamin Nelson: Civilizational contents and intercivilizational encounters
139
18
S.N. Eisenstadt: Civilizational breakthroughs and dynamics
157
22
Jaroslav Krejci: Civilizations as paradigms of the human condition
179
16
Meaning, Power and Wealth: Changing Constellations
195
128
Domains and dimensions of socio-cultural analysis
195
21
Theorizing civilizations
216
4
Configurations of meaning, I: Cultural articulations of the world
220
12
Configurations of meaning, II: Religious traditions and civilizational trajectories
232
15
Institutional patterns, I: Politics and ideology
247
14
Institutional patterns, II: The historical forms of economic life
261
19
Culture, institution and organization: The case of science
280
7
Intercivilizational encounters
287
9
Civilizational groupings
296
8
Traditions in transformation
304
10
Civilizations and regions
314
9
Questioning the West: The Uses and Abuses of Anti-Eurocentrism
323
37
Images of otherness
326
13
The post-mode and its pretensions
339
7
Rescuing postcoloniality from postcolonialism
346
14
Reference list
360
9
Index of Names
369
2
Index of Subjects
371