The great revolutions and the civilizations of modernity / / by S. N. Eisenstadt.

• Superior document: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ; Volume 99
• VerfasserIn: Eisenstadt, S. N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; Volume 99.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book is the analysis of the civilizational and historical context of the development of the Great Modern Revolutions; their relations to modernity, to the civilization of modernity, and to the development of multiple modernities; and the fate of revolutionary symbolism and dynamics in modern regimes, in the continually changing civilization of modernity, its dynamics and tribulations.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Part I - The Great Revolutions and the Origins and Crystallization of Modernity: Some Comparative Observations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - The Historical and Civilizational Frameworks of the Great Revolutions -- Chapter 2 - The Distinctive Characteristics of the Revolutionary Processes and Ideologies -- PART II - The "Causes" and Historical - Civilizational Frameworks of Revolutions -- Chapter 3 - Structural and Social Psychological Causes -- Chapter 4 - The Historical Settings - The Contradictions of "Early Modernity" -- Chapter 5 - The Civilizational Frameworks of the Great Revolutions - The Axial Civilizations -- Part III - The Variability of Axial Civilizations and Political Dynamics - The Distinctiveness of the Revolutionary Process -- Chapter 6 - "Other-worldly" Civilizations - The Hindu Civilization -- Chapter 7 - The Political Dynamics in "this-worldly" Civilization - the Chinese Confucian Political Order -- Chapter 8 - Monotheistic Civilizations - Islam -- Chapter 9 - Christian Civilizations - the European Complex -- Chapter 10 - A Comparative excursus: Japan - the Non-Axial Revolutionary Revolutions and Concluding Remarks -- Conception of social orders; access to the political order and political dynamics -- Part IV - Cosmological Visions, Modes of Regulation and Revolutionary Potentials: Political Dynamics in Axial Civilizations -- Chapter 11 - Revolutionary Potentials in Axial Civilizations -- Chapter 12 - Cosmological Visions, Modes of Regulation, and Political Dynamics in Imperial and Imperial-Feudal Societies -- Chapter 13 - Cosmological Visions, Modes of Regulation, and Political Dynamics in Patrimonial Regimes -- Chapter 14 - Concluding Observations - The "Causes", Historical Contexts and Civilizational Frameworks of Revolutions -- Part V - The Outcomes of Revolutions -- Chapter 15 - The Outcomes of Revolutions - The Crystallization of the Political and Cultural Programs of Modernity -- Chapter 16 - The Outcomes of Revolutions - The Variability of Revolutionary Symbolism in Modern Societies - Preliminary Indications -- Chapter 17 - The New Setting - Changes in the Modes of the Model of the Nation and Revolutionary State.