The Structure of World History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Structure of World History write by Kojin Karatani. This book was released on 2014-03-28. The Structure of World History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this major, paradigm-shifting work, Kojin Karatani systematically re-reads Marx's version of world history, shifting the focus of critique from modes of production to modes of exchange. Karatani seeks to understand both Capital-Nation-State, the interlocking system that is the dominant form of modern global society, and the possibilities for superseding it. In The Structure of World History, he traces different modes of exchange, including the pooling of resources that characterizes nomadic tribes, the gift exchange systems developed after the adoption of fixed-settlement agriculture, the exchange of obedience for protection that arises with the emergence of the state, the commodity exchanges that characterize capitalism, and, finally, a future mode of exchange based on the return of gift exchange, albeit modified for the contemporary moment. He argues that this final stage—marking the overcoming of capital, nation, and state—is best understood in light of Kant's writings on eternal peace. The Structure of World History is in many ways the capstone of Karatani's brilliant career, yet it also signals new directions in his thought.
Plough, Sword, and Book
Plough, Sword, and Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Plough, Sword, and Book write by Ernest Gellner. This book was released on 1989. Plough, Sword, and Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.
Structure and Change in Economic History
Structure and Change in Economic History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Structure and Change in Economic History write by Douglass Cecil North. This book was released on 1981. Structure and Change in Economic History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western economies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change.
Dynamics of World History
Dynamics of World History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dynamics of World History write by Christopher Dawson. This book was released on 2014-05-20. Dynamics of World History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In scope and in vision Christopher Dawson’s historiography ranks with the work of men like Spengler, Northrop, and Toynbee. Several major themes run through Dawson’s work, but perhaps his most unique contribution was his insistence on the importance of religion in shaping and sustaining civilizations. Religion, Dawson believed, is the great creative force in any culture, and the loss of a society’s historic religion therefore portends a process of social dissolution. For this reason, Dawson concluded that Western society must find a way to revitalize its spiritual life if it is to avoid irreversible decay. Progress, the real religion of modernity, is insufficient to sustain cultural health. And an ahistorical, secularized Christianity is an oxymoron, a pseudo-religion only nominally related to the historic religion of the West. Dawson maintained that the hope of the present age lay in the reconciliation of the religious tradition of Christianity with the intellectual tradition of humanism and the new knowledge about man and nature provided by modern science. Dynamics of World History shows that though such a task may be difficult, it is not impossible.
Islam and the Trajectory of Globalization
Islam and the Trajectory of Globalization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Islam and the Trajectory of Globalization write by Louay M. Safi. This book was released on 2021-10-18. Islam and the Trajectory of Globalization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book examines the growing tension between social movements that embrace egalitarian and inclusivist views of national and global politics, most notably classical liberalism, and those that advance social hierarchy and national exclusivism, such as neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and national populism. In exploring issues relating to tensions and conflicts around globalization, the book identifies historical patterns of convergence and divergence rooted in the monotheistic traditions, beginning with the ancient Israelites that dominated the Near East during the Axial age, through Islamic civilization, and finally by considering the idealism-realism tensions in modern times. One thing remained constant throughout the various historical stages that preceded our current moment of global convergence: a recurring tension between transcendental idealism and various forms of realism. Transcendental idealism, which prioritize egalitarian and universal values, pushed periodically against the forces of realism that privilege established law and power structure. Equipped with the idealism-realism framework, the book examines the consequences of European realism that justified the imperialistic venture into Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America in the name of liberation and liberalization. The ill-conceived strategy has, ironically, engendered the very dysfunctional societies that produce the waves of immigrants in constant motion from the South to the North, simultaneously as it fostered the social hierarchy that transfer external tensions into identity politics within the countries of the North. The book focuses particularly on the role played historically by Islamic rationalism in translating the monotheistic egalitarian outlook into the institutions of religious pluralism, legislative and legal autonomy, and scientific enterprise at the foundation of modern society. It concludes by shedding light on the significance of the Muslim presence in Western cultures as humanity draws slowly but consistently towards what we may come to recognize as the Global Age. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003203360, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
