Author: | Jeremy C.A. Smith | ISBN: | 9781526105301 |
Publisher: | Manchester University Press | Publication: | July 30, 2017 |
Imprint: | Manchester University Press | Language: | English |
Author: | Jeremy C.A. Smith |
ISBN: | 9781526105301 |
Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
Publication: | July 30, 2017 |
Imprint: | Manchester University Press |
Language: | English |
Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars of civilisations, comparing civilisational analysis with competing perspectives and presenting a fresh theoretical approach. Debating civilisations will appeal to academics and postgraduate and final-year undergraduate students in the fields of history, comparative and historical sociology and social theory.
Contemporary civilisational analysis has emerged in the post-Cold War period as a forming but already controversial field of scholarship. Debating civilisations seeks to evaluate the main currents of the field and its principal competitors. The author draws a unique comparison of many key scholars of civilisations, comparing civilisational analysis with competing perspectives and presenting a fresh theoretical approach. Debating civilisations will appeal to academics and postgraduate and final-year undergraduate students in the fields of history, comparative and historical sociology and social theory.