Civilization

Global Histories of a Political Idea

Patricia Chiantera-Stutte, Giovanni Borgognone (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4582-1 (ISBN)

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Civilizations, or rather narratives about civilizations, matter, not only as research subjects in textbooks, literary and scientific essays, but also in politics. This seems to be the case in "civilizational states" such as China, Russia, Turkey and Syria. Also in Western countries, in recent decades, the notion of civilization has often been used in public discourse: political parties and leaders have referred in particular to the need to protect Western civilization, calling in this regard for policies to restrict immigration from Muslim countries. In 2022 the narrative on civilization was used to legitimize the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The studies in this collected volume reconstruct how civilizational paradigms and narratives have been used to explain political relations, to define the global order, to justify attempts to gain hegemony over particular geopolitical areas, and to make predictions on global developments in specific times of crisis. In particular, this book analyzes the concepts of civilization as they have been used in the intellectual and political discourse in periods particularly critical for global relations and for the consolidation or contestation of the West’s dominant role in international, national politics and academic discourse.

Patricia Chiantera-Stutte is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at University of Bari. Giovanni Borgognone is Associate Professor of History of Political Thought at University of Torino.

Introduction: Assembling the Civilizational Jigsaw by Giovanni Borgognone and Patricia Chiantera-Stutte

Chapter 1: Challenges to the West: Civilizational Theory, Imperialism, and Liberal Internationalism by Patricia Chiantera-Stutte

Chapter 2: An Historian’s Approach to Civilization: Arnold J. Toynbee and the Study of International Affairs in the Twentieth Century by Luca G. Castellin

Chapter 3: Governable Masses and Manageable Democracy: Samuel Huntington and the Origins of the Clash of Civilizations Theory by Giovanni Borgognone

Chapter 4: The ‘Western’ Roots of Democracy: A Geopolitical Dilemma by Paulo Butti de Lima

Chapter 5:Pan-Islamism and Pan-Arabism: Debating Possible Convergences in Responses to Modernity by Marco Di Donato

Chapter 6: From Pan-Asianism to an Afro-Asian Solidarity: Notions and Connotations of Civilization in the Context of Chinese Revolution, 1900-1966 by Zhiguang Yin

Chapter 7: Civilizationism in Russia from the Slavophiles to Vladimir Putin by Kåre Johan Mjør

Conclusion: A Challenge for the Global Society? by Giovanni Borgognone and Patricia Chiantera-Stutte

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2022
Co-Autor	Giovanni Borgognone, Paulo Butti Di Lima, Luca G. Castellin
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 237 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-7936-4582-5 / 1793645825
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4582-1 / 9781793645821
Zustand	Neuware