Civilization, Modernity, and Critique : Engaging Johann P. Arnason’s Macro-Social Theory (Paperback)

1 Axel Honneth (Columbia University) - Preface. 2 ?ubomir Dunaj (University of Vienna) - Introduction. QUESTIONS OF THEORY AND METHODOLOGY. 3 Suzi Adams (Flinders University, Adelaide) ? The Being of the Political and Instituting Doing in Question: Reflections on Johann P. Arnason’s Thought. 4 Ji?i ?ubrt (Charles University in Prague) ? Long-term Developmental Processes as an Unintended Consequence of Human Action: Some Theoretical and Methodological Questions of Historical Sociology. 5 Said Amir Arjomand (Stony Brook University) ? World Regions and the Unpacking of Multiple Modernities: A Pluralistic View of Global Sociological Theory. RE-THINKING THE CONCEPT OF MODERNITY/IES THROUGH THE LENS OF CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS. 6 Peter Wagner (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Study [ICREA]; University of Barcelona; University of Central Asia) ? Ways Out of the Modern Labyrinth: Normative Expectations and Subsequent Social Change. 7 Wolfgang Knobl (Hamburg Institute for Social Research) ? Politics and the Social Imaginary: The Problem of the State ? and the Problem of Modernity. 8 Kurt C.M. Mertel (American University of Sharjah) ? Situating Johann P. Arnason’s Civilizational Analysis within Left-Heideggerianism. MODERNITY IN THE PLURAL: CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THE AXIAL AGE DEBATE. 9 Hans Schelkshorn (University of Vienna) ? The Axial Age and Multiple Modernities: Philosophical reflections on the universal claims of European civilization. 10 Hans-Herbert Kogler (University of North Florida) ? Traditions of Transcendence. A Hermeneutic Appropriation of the Axial Age Discourse. 11 Christoph Kleine (Leipzig University) and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Leipzig University) ? A Secularity Sui Generis? On the Historical Development of Conceptual Distinctions and Institutional Differentiations in Japan. MAKING THEORY CONTEXTUAL THROUGH CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS: PLACE, POLITICS, SITUATEDNES. 12 Armando Salvatore (McGill University) and Kieko Obuse (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) ? Overwriting the Orient and the Islamosphere: Religio-Civilizational Imaginaries Via East-West Entanglements. 13 Yulia Prozorova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg) ? Religious-Political Problematic in Civilizational Analysis: Reflections on Russia’s Trajectory. 14 Jeremy Smith (Federation University Australia) ? Regionality and Civilizations in the Americas: Considerations on Civilizational Analysis in the Context of American Modernities. JOHANN P. ARNASON‘S REPLIES. 15 Johann P. Arnason (La Trobe University) ? Replies to criticisms and suggestions