The great revolutions and the civilizations of modernity / / by S. N. Eisenstadt.
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 re...
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| Superior document: | International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology ; Volume 99 |
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| 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. |
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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.