Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations
Subtitle: Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese and Western (Inu Societal Research Series)
Publisher: I N U Pr
Published: September 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 530
ISBN-13: 9782881550041
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; World history; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science; Sociology; History / Civilization; Civilization; History; International Relations (General); International relations; Political science; Political Science / International Relations
First sentence: Since all human life is of undetermined but limited duration, very different individual or microsocial lifestyles may be regarded as rational, and valid.
Description: Some important questions discussed in this
book:
- Are there any civilizations other than the
Western one living in our so-called
Global-Age ?
- "Eastern civilization"? Is the concept of
East anything more than non-West? Or does
there exist, in reality, a distinct Chinese,
Indian, Arabo-Muslim, and Western
civilization?
- Is the construction of large civilization-states
such as China and India an unparalleled
historical achievement?
- Do economic ties always eclipse other
forms of affiliation such as those formed
through kinship or between speech
communities?
- What is the role of the "Latin" and the
Jewish Peoples in our Anglo-American-led
Western world?
- Is English today the global language or
merely an international one?
- Is the Chinese thought pattern closely
related to its writing system?
- Is today's world one of (symmetrical)
interdependence? Or rather one of hegemony?
- If the so-called North-South or East-West
dialogue fails in constructing a universally accepted world civilization, then what is the appropriate arrangement for reaching such a
consensus within humankind ?
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Table of contents: pagenum: 1
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title: Contents I. Communication and Civilizations; pagenum: 49
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title: II. Arabo-Muslim, Bharati, Chinese, and Western Civilizations; pagenum: 119
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title: III. The West as a Civilization; pagenum: 245
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title: IV. Globalism; pagenum: 339
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title: V. The Federative Agenda; label: Book Two
title: A World Civilization by Federation of Civilization-States