Civilization (eBook, PDF)

Global Histories of a Political Idea
Redaktion: Chiantera-Stutte, Patricia; Borgognone, Giovanni

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978790131
• Artikelnr.: 74841427

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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